{"id":17053,"date":"2024-02-14T07:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T07:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/champions-league-saka-is-not-world-class-rio-ferdinand\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T07:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T07:03:40","slug":"champions-league-saka-is-not-world-class-rio-ferdinand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/champions-league-saka-is-not-world-class-rio-ferdinand\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Saka is not world class \u2013 Rio Ferdinand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand has insisted that Arsenal\u2019s Bukayo Saka is not world-class yet.<\/p>\n<p>Saka has established himself as a key player for both club and country since bursting onto the scene back in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old is the Gunners\u2019 top scorer this season with 13 goals and 12 assists in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>But when he was asked if Saka is world class, Ferdinand told his Vibe with Five podcast: \u201cNot yet. Listen, I think Saka\u2019s been unreal. I actually think he needs a bit of a rest, so many games for a young kid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think, it\u2019s almost like what is world-class? He hasn\u2019t done it in the Champions League, has he? I\u2019m talking in the nitty-gritty stages. Saka\u2019s top, don\u2019t get me wrong. He\u2019s not world-class yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Champions League: Saka is not world class \u2013 Rio Ferdinand<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand has insisted that Arsenal\u2019s Bukayo Saka is not world-class yet. Saka has established himself as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1725,15,195,2542,160],"tags":[1150,198,1145,180,204,2546,201],"class_list":["post-17053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-champions-league","category-news","category-rio-ferdinand","category-saka","category-sport","tag-champions","tag-ferdinand","tag-league","tag-news","tag-rio","tag-saka","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053","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=17053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}