{"id":12057,"date":"2024-01-15T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T09:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-benzema-in-shock-move-to-man-utd-this-january\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T09:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T09:10:21","slug":"transfer-benzema-in-shock-move-to-man-utd-this-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-benzema-in-shock-move-to-man-utd-this-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Benzema in shock move to Man Utd this January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Al-Ittihad striker Karim Benzema is keen on a return to European football and Manchester United are interested in signing him this month, Marca reports.<\/p>\n<p>Benzema ended his 14-year spell with Real Madrid last June to sign a three-year deal reportedly worth \u00a386million-a-season with the Saudi Pro League side.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has scored 12 goals in his 20 appearances in the Middle East, but problems have begun to emerge for him in Saudi.<\/p>\n<p>Benzema failed to show up for the start of Al-Ittihad\u2019s pre-season campaign last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This meant the rest of the team travelled to Dubai without him over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach, Marcelo Gallardo has ordered Benzema not to join up with his teammates, leaving the player\u2019s future in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>United are one of the clubs interested in offering the former Ballon d\u2019Or winner a route back to Europe with the Premier League side expecting a response in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer: Benzema in shock move to Man Utd this January<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ittihad striker Karim Benzema is keen on a return to European football and Manchester United are interested in signing him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8951,1305,15,160,1693],"tags":[8952,202,180,201,1695,203],"class_list":["post-12057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benzema","category-man-utd","category-news","category-sport","category-transfer","tag-benzema","tag-man","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-transfer","tag-utd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}