{"id":156,"date":"2014-08-15T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=156"},"modified":"2014-08-15T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T19:43:06","slug":"van-persie-will-miss-swansea-clash-van-gaal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Van Persie will miss Swansea clash \u2013 Van Gaal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/van.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-157\" alt=\"van\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/van.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands striker has not trained sufficiently since returning from the World Cup to be considered as the Red Devils chase a second successive opening day win over the Swans has \u201cno chance\u201d of featuring for Manchester United against Swansea City on Saturday, according to manager Louis van Gaal.<\/p>\n<p>The striker returned to pre-season training late after reaching the World Cup semi-finals, under Van Gaal, with Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>And, asked whether Van Persie might be fit enough to play on Saturday, Van Gaal said: \u201cNo chance. He has to train.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments echo the former Bayern Munich and Barcelona coach\u2019s statement from earlier this month, when he predicted Van Persie would not be ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobin wants to play every game, I know that, but so do the other 30 players in the squad,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cBut players have to train and Robin needs a full training regime behind him before he can play again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big-money signing Luke Shaw will also miss out on Saturday after picking up a hamstring injury, but Van Gaal is confident of filling the gap left by the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played in the USA [pre-season tour] with Reece James and Ashley Young in that position [left wing-back],\u201d he reminded reporters. \u201cI\u2019m not worried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sam Johnstone, Antonio Valencia, Jonny Evans and Danny Welbeck all join Shaw in being unavailable for the Premier League curtain-raiser through injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands striker has not trained sufficiently since returning from the World Cup to be considered as the Red Devils chase a second successive opening day win over the Swans has \u201cno chance\u201d of featuring for Manchester United against Swansea City on Saturday, according to manager Louis van Gaal. The striker returned to pre-season training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157,"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-156","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\/08\/van.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}