{"id":2037,"date":"2023-11-14T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T09:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/he-has-more-goals-assists-than-rashford-grealish-ferdinand-questions-southgate-for-snubbing-chelsea-star\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T09:11:21","slug":"he-has-more-goals-assists-than-rashford-grealish-ferdinand-questions-southgate-for-snubbing-chelsea-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/he-has-more-goals-assists-than-rashford-grealish-ferdinand-questions-southgate-for-snubbing-chelsea-star\/","title":{"rendered":"He has more goals, assists than Rashford, Grealish \u2013 Ferdinand questions Southgate for snubbing Chelsea star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand has questioned England manager Gareth Southgate for snubbing Chelsea star Raheem Sterling and selecting the likes of Marcus Rashford and Jack Grealish in the Three Lions\u2019 latest squad.<\/p>\n<p>Southgate recently named his squad for Euro 2024 qualifiers against Malta on Friday and North Macedonia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling was a notable absentee from the squad of players chosen by Southgate despite his current excellent form for Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ferdinand has now branded his omission from the squad as \u2018madness\u2019, insisting that he has more goals and assists than Grealish and Rashford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree my guy Raheem Sterling. I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s done. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened, but for him not to be in the England squad is beyond me,\u201d Ferdinand told his Vibe with FIVE podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, there\u2019s a lot of talent, don\u2019t get me wrong. But if we\u2019re talking form, he\u2019s got more goals and assists than Rashford and Grealish put together. Has he been tried and tested at the top level? He was England\u2019s best player at the Euros!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand then summarized on X (formerly Twitter): \u201cI don\u2019t know what has happened\u2026 but I need answers (please)! My man is 28, in form, tried &amp; tested on the International stage. Madness!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has more goals, assists than Rashford, Grealish \u2013 Ferdinand questions Southgate for snubbing Chelsea star<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United legend, Rio Ferdinand has questioned England manager Gareth Southgate for snubbing Chelsea star Raheem Sterling and selecting the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,365,3842,15,3843,2715,160],"tags":[8,3845,609,198,190,1039,3846,196,226,180,3847,3844,3848,2723,201,200,1553],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-ferdinand","category-grealish","category-news","category-rashford","category-southgate","category-sport","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-assists","tag-chelsea","tag-ferdinand","tag-for","tag-goals","tag-grealish","tag-has","tag-more","tag-news","tag-questions","tag-rashford","tag-snubbing","tag-southgate","tag-sport","tag-star","tag-than"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","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=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}