{"id":397,"date":"2014-08-16T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=397"},"modified":"2014-08-16T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T15:45:29","slug":"moses-joins-stoke-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Moses joins Stoke City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<header id=\"header\">\n<nav role=\"navigation\"><\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"main\" role=\"main\">\n<article itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/NewsArticle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/moses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-398\" alt=\"moses\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/moses.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><br itemprop=\"name headline\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"entryContainer\">\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>(AFP) \u2013 Chelsea\u2019s Nigeria winger Victor Moses joined Stoke on a season-long loan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Moses has struggled to make an impact at Stamford Bridge since moving from Wigan for \u00a39 million ($15 million) in 2012 and spent last season on loan at Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old, who can play on both flanks and in a more central attacking role, is Stoke\u2019s sixth signing since the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Stoke\u2019s chief executive Tony Scholes said: \u201cWe are delighted to have secured the services of such an exciting young talent in Victor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will certainly add to our attacking options and from talking to him it\u2019s obvious that he\u2019s really excited about the prospect of making an impact in the Premier League with Stoke City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moses, who started his career in England at Crystal Palace, started six Premier League games for Liverpool last term and featured in a further 13 from the bench, scoring his only goal on his debut against Swansea.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Nigeria, Moses chose to represent England at various youth levels up to the under-21s before deciding to play for the country of his birth in senior internationals.<\/p>\n<p>He started all four games at the recent World Cup as Nigeria reached the last 16 before losing to France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AFP) \u2013 Chelsea\u2019s Nigeria winger Victor Moses joined Stoke on a season-long loan on Saturday. Moses has struggled to make an impact at Stamford Bridge since moving from Wigan for \u00a39 million ($15 million) in 2012 and spent last season on loan at Liverpool. The 23-year-old, who can play on both flanks and in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398,"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-397","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\/moses.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-6p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}