{"id":50796,"date":"2024-09-25T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-former-arsenal-goalkeeper-szczesny-in-shock-move-to-barcelona\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:04:36","slug":"transfer-former-arsenal-goalkeeper-szczesny-in-shock-move-to-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/transfer-former-arsenal-goalkeeper-szczesny-in-shock-move-to-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer: Former Arsenal goalkeeper Szczesny in shock move to Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Arsenal and Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is set to join Barcelona as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations are believed to be so advanced that Szczesny is set to undergo medicals with the LaLiga side.<\/p>\n<p>The move will see the Polish stopper come out of retirement and sign a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Szczesny himself has already confirmed interest from Barca and hinted he could never turn them down.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona manager Hansi Flick has been forced to bring in a new goalkeeper following Marc-Andre ter Stegen\u2019s awful injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old may need a little bit of time to get up to speed but it\u2019s thought he will then rival Inaki Pena for the No. 1 spot for the rest of the 2024-25 campaign while Ter Stegen is sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer: Former Arsenal goalkeeper Szczesny in shock move to Barcelona<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal and Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is set to join Barcelona as a free agent. Negotiations are believed to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,5606,15,160,23902],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-barcelona","category-news","category-sport","category-szczesny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50796","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=50796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}