{"id":1240,"date":"2014-09-02T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2014-09-02T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T07:50:05","slug":"falcao-joins-man-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1240","title":{"rendered":"Falcao joins Man United"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1242\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Manchester-United-players-360x207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1242\" alt=\"Manchester United players\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Manchester-United-players-360x207-300x172.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Manchester-United-players-360x207-300x172.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Manchester-United-players-360x207.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manchester United players<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Manchester United on Monday agreed to sign Colombia striker Radamel Falcao in a \u00a36m season-long loan deal from Monaco, BBC Sport reports.<\/p>\n<p>Falcao had been linked during the summer with a move away from the French Ligue 1 side, whom he joined for \u00a350m in May 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Falcao, 28, has scored 11 goals in 20 league appearances for Monaco, and has two in three games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes an option for United to buy the striker for 55m euros (\u00a343.5m) at the end of the loan spell.<\/p>\n<p>Louis van Gaal\u2019s side, like most of Europe\u2019s top clubs, had been made aware of Falcao\u2019s availability over the past 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League champions Manchester City opted against pursuing a deal as they could not make space in their squad for the Colombian.<\/p>\n<p>Falcao had also been linked with Arsenal, as well as Italian champions Juventus and Spanish side Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours of a move to European champions Real gathered pace on Saturday when a comment on his official Twitter account, which was later deleted, read, \u201cDream come true #halamadrid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a later post Falcao indicated the first tweet was fake, saying, \u201cI have to refute a story about a tweet I have not done and that is a photo montage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United on Monday agreed to sign Colombia striker Radamel Falcao in a \u00a36m season-long loan deal from Monaco, BBC Sport reports. Falcao had been linked during the summer with a move away from the French Ligue 1 side, whom he joined for \u00a350m in May 2013. Falcao, 28, has scored 11 goals in 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Manchester-United-players-360x207.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-k0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}