{"id":2551,"date":"2014-06-06T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2014-06-06T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:31:27","slug":"sevilla-ready-for-rakitic-departure-as-chelsea-and-manchester-united-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/sevilla-ready-for-rakitic-departure-as-chelsea-and-manchester-united-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sevilla ready for Rakitic departure as Chelsea and Manchester United circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sevilla manager Unai Emery admits the club are preparing for life without Chelsea and Manchester United transfer target Ivan Rakitic.<\/p>\n<p>The Croatian midfielder was a key part of the Sevilla side that won the UEFA Europa League last season, sparking rumours that he will be leaving this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool make up the trio of sides that are interested in Rakitic, who has one year remaining on his current contract.<\/p>\n<p>Sevilla\u2019s director of football, Monchi, has previously been adamant that the 26-year-old playmaker will not leave, but Emery has now suggested the club are wary of his departure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talksport.com\/football\/sevilla-preparing-rakitic-departure-chelsea-and-man-united-circle-14060694792\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Football News &#8211; Sevilla &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/football\/\" title=\"Football\">Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sevilla manager Unai Emery admits the club are preparing for life without Chelsea and Manchester United transfer target Ivan Rakitic. The Croatian midfielder was a key part of the Sevilla side that won the UEFA Europa League last season, sparking rumours that he will be leaving this summer. Liverpool make up the trio of sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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],"tags":[417,565,431,1267,371,564,179,561,356,568,30,559,563,560,114,120,80,188,567,566,562],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-chelsea","tag-croatian","tag-europa-league","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-ivan-rakitic","tag-liverpool","tag-manager-unai-emery","tag-manchester-united","tag-monchi","tag-news","tag-sevilla","tag-sevilla-club","tag-sevilla-manager-unai-emery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-uefa","tag-uefa-europa-league","tag-unai-emery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}