{"id":46322,"date":"2024-08-10T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/why-i-rejected-lucrative-saudi-offer-chukwueze\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T09:00:20","slug":"why-i-rejected-lucrative-saudi-offer-chukwueze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/why-i-rejected-lucrative-saudi-offer-chukwueze\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I rejected lucrative Saudi offer \u2014 Chukwueze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nigeria winger, Samuel Chukwueze has revealed the reason behind his decision to snub a move to Saudi Arabia last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwueze was approached by a number of clubs in the Asian country after the end of the 2022\/23 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old however decided against accepting the tempting offer despite plea fron his manager.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the talented winger joined Serie A giants, AC Milan ending his five-year stay with LaLiga club, Villarreal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf money were a problem, I would have signed in Saudi Arabia. They wanted me a year ago,\u201d the 25-year-old was quoted by Football Italia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d My mind was set only on Milan. My agent told me, \u2018Hey, look, there\u2019s this money\u2026\u2019 But I said no: \u2018I don\u2019t want to go anywhere else.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo he gave up. If that money comes, it comes. The most important thing now is to believe in myself; I\u2019m still young, I want to make it, I need to stay in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chukwueze scored once in 24 league appearances for AC Milan last season.<\/p>\n<p>Why I rejected lucrative Saudi offer \u2014 Chukwueze<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria winger, Samuel Chukwueze has revealed the reason behind his decision to snub a move to Saudi Arabia last summer.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4248,15,10427,160],"tags":[8,575,23491,180,1355,3652,1281,201,421],"class_list":["post-46322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chukwueze","category-news","category-saudi","category-sport","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-chukwueze","tag-lucrative","tag-news","tag-offer","tag-rejected","tag-saudi","tag-sport","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46322","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=46322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}