{"id":23102,"date":"2024-03-21T06:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-jim-ratcliffe-identifies-player-manchester-united-should-prioritize-signing\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T06:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:02:57","slug":"epl-jim-ratcliffe-identifies-player-manchester-united-should-prioritize-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-jim-ratcliffe-identifies-player-manchester-united-should-prioritize-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Jim Ratcliffe identifies player Manchester United should prioritize signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>New co-owner of Manchester United, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has suggested that the club needs to sign a player like Paul Scholes or Andres Iniesta to improve their current squad.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking recently on the Geraint Thomas Cycling Club podcast, Ratcliffe stated that the midfield needs a player who is not solely defensive-minded like Kobbie Mainoo and Casemiro.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that a player like Scholes or Iniesta would be perfect for the current Manchester United squad.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe believes that the team should prioritize signing a midfielder rather than focusing on the return of Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul Scholes. I think that is the player that is most missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCasemiro and Mainoo are sort of quite defensive midfielders, but they don\u2019t have a Scholes or an Iniesta,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Jim Ratcliffe identifies player Manchester United should prioritize signing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New co-owner of Manchester United, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has suggested that the club needs to sign a player like Paul&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,7850,323,15,160],"tags":[156,4068,331,180,5051,201,305],"class_list":["post-23102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-jim-ratcliffe","category-manchester-united","category-news","category-sport","tag-epl","tag-jim","tag-manchester","tag-news","tag-ratcliffe","tag-sport","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102","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=23102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}