{"id":2355,"date":"2014-06-01T15:33:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2014-06-01T15:33:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T08:33:13","slug":"mario-balotelli-wants-premier-league-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/mario-balotelli-wants-premier-league-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Balotelli wants Premier League return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Balotelli could return to the Premier League next season \u2013 but Manchester City will not be activating a buy-back clause in the Italian\u2019s AC Milan contract.<\/p>\n<p>The champions agreed to sell Balotelli to Milan for a cut-price \u00a320million 16 months ago, on the proviso that they were given first refusal on the 23-year-old if he ever left the San Siro.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian giants are now looking to offload the controversial striker, who will lead the Azzurri attack against England in Manaus in 13 days\u2019 time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/mario-balotelli-wants-premier-league-3631635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today &#8211; Sport Football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Balotelli could return to the Premier League next season \u2013 but Manchester City will not be activating a buy-back clause in the Italian\u2019s AC Milan contract. The champions agreed to sell Balotelli to Milan for a cut-price \u00a320million 16 months ago, on the proviso that they were given first refusal on the 23-year-old if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,85],"tags":[117,119,111,118,116,115,1271],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-premier-league","tag-ac-milan","tag-azzurri","tag-england","tag-italian","tag-manchester-city","tag-mario-balotelli","tag-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}