{"id":41831,"date":"2024-07-14T19:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-man-utd-give-reasons-why-they-signed-zirkzee\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T19:05:01","slug":"transfer-man-utd-give-reasons-why-they-signed-zirkzee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-man-utd-give-reasons-why-they-signed-zirkzee\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Man Utd give reasons why they signed Zirkzee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester United sporting director Dan Ashworth has explained the club\u2019s reasons for signing Joshua Zirkzee.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League giants confirmed the transfer on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Zirkzee arrives from Bologna in a deal worth more than \u20ac40 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch forward has signed a contract until June 2029, with the option to extend it for another season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecuring a forward to enhance our already strong group of attacking players was a key aim for this summer,\u201d Ashworth said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted that we\u2019ve managed to sign a player of Joshua\u2019s calibre this early in the transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoshua is an outstanding talent who is ready to make an impact for Manchester United. His ability and desire to grow into a world-class player means that he will be a great addition to the squad that we are building for the exciting season ahead and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Transfer: Man Utd give reasons why they signed Zirkzee<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United sporting director Dan Ashworth has explained the club\u2019s reasons for signing Joshua Zirkzee. The Premier League giants confirmed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1305,15,160,1693,11441],"tags":[2197,202,180,2195,20915,201,2196,1695,203,421,11442],"class_list":["post-41831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-man-utd","category-news","category-sport","category-transfer","category-zirkzee","tag-give","tag-man","tag-news","tag-reasons","tag-signed","tag-sport","tag-they","tag-transfer","tag-utd","tag-why","tag-zirkzee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41831","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=41831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}