{"id":38531,"date":"2024-06-22T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-okonkwo-leaves-arsenal-for-new-club\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:00:54","slug":"transfer-okonkwo-leaves-arsenal-for-new-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-okonkwo-leaves-arsenal-for-new-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Okonkwo leaves Arsenal for new club"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nigerian-born goalkeeper, Arthur Okonkwo has confirmed he has left Arsenal to join Wrexham.<\/p>\n<p>Okonkwo made this known in a statement via his Instagram account on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old spent last season on loan at Wrexham.<\/p>\n<p>He played a key role in Wrexham securing promotion to League One.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time has come to say goodbye to Arsenal,\u201d Okonkwo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve made friends for life and owe so much to all the coaches I\u2019ve worked with, teammates I have played with, fans who have supported me and everyone involved with the club for helping me grow and develop into the person and player I am today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArsenal will always be special to me and I hope to see them be successful in the coming years. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Okonkwo joined Arsenal back in 2009 when he was eight years old.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer: Okonkwo leaves Arsenal for new club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian-born goalkeeper, Arthur Okonkwo has confirmed he has left Arsenal to join Wrexham. Okonkwo made this known in a statement&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,15,12477,160,1693],"tags":[237,1087,190,16576,408,180,12478,201,1695],"class_list":["post-38531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-news","category-okonkwo","category-sport","category-transfer","tag-arsenal","tag-club","tag-for","tag-leaves","tag-new","tag-news","tag-okonkwo","tag-sport","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38531","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=38531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}