{"id":179308,"date":"2024-08-26T22:34:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-osimhen-makes-bogus-wage-demand-of-500k-a-week-to-join-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:34:37","slug":"nigeria-osimhen-makes-bogus-wage-demand-of-500k-a-week-to-join-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-osimhen-makes-bogus-wage-demand-of-500k-a-week-to-join-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Osimhen Makes Bogus Wage Demand of \u00a3500k-a-Week to Join Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Chelsea&#8217;s move to sign Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen, from Napoli FC is in major doubt because of the player&#8217;s bogus wage demands, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The 25-year-old is believed to be asking for a contract which would see him receive \u00a3500,000-a-week. The extraordinary figure would make him the highest paid player in the English Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ng\/psg-coach-enrique-plays-down-prospect-of-signing-osimhen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PSG Coach, Enrique, Plays Down Prospect Of Signing Osimhen<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The Blues have been working all summer long to get the deal over the line and talks&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408260630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea&#8217;s move to sign Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen, from Napoli FC is in major doubt because of the player&#8217;s bogus wage demands, according to reports. The 25-year-old is believed to be asking for a contract which would see him receive \u00a3500,000-a-week. The extraordinary figure would make him the highest paid player in the English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00641593:459a05d21503b551bf569fcfce886789:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[49371,258,256,11112,8746,7617,7107,257,4687,393,35859,254,7667],"class_list":["post-179308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-500kaweek","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bogus","tag-chelsea","tag-demand","tag-join","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-osimhen","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00641593:459a05d21503b551bf569fcfce886789:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}