{"id":2635,"date":"2014-06-09T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T11:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2014-06-09T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T11:04:26","slug":"liverpool-fighting-manchester-united-to-win-bayern-munich-star-xherdan-shaqiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/liverpool-fighting-manchester-united-to-win-bayern-munich-star-xherdan-shaqiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool fighting Manchester United to win Bayern Munich star Xherdan Shaqiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are set to fight off competition from Manchester United to land Bayern Munich winger Xherdan Shaqiri, reports have claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has been heavily linked with a move away from the German champions after struggling to make an impact under Pepe Guardiola. It is believed a bid in the region of \u00a315 million could secure his signature.<\/p>\n<p>Italian giants Juventus are also known to be keen on the winger, but it looks like Liverpool have jumped the queue, if Bayern sanction a move.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are hoping to wrap up a deal quickly before the World Cup because his price could be hiked up further if he stars for Switzerland during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers seems to be turning his attention to Shaqiri as an alternative option to Adam Lallana with Southampton seemingly playing hardball with their evaluation of their captain despite Liverpool placing a take it or leave it offer of \u00a325million&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2014\/06\/08\/liverpool-ready-to-beat-manchester-united-for-bayern-munich-star-xherdan-shaqiri-4754510\/\" title=\"Read more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Football News &#8211; Liverpool &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/football\/\" title=\"Football\">Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are set to fight off competition from Manchester United to land Bayern Munich winger Xherdan Shaqiri, reports have claimed. The 22-year-old has been heavily linked with a move away from the German champions after struggling to make an impact under Pepe Guardiola. It is believed a bid in the region of \u00a315 million could [&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":[2,84],"tags":[768,765,360,1267,371,762,764,752,179,760,356,30,763,767,114,120,449,769,80,188,233,1270,766,761],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-world-cup","tag-adam-lallana","tag-bayern","tag-bayern-munich","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-german-champions","tag-italian-giants-juventus","tag-juventus","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-football","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-pepe-guardiola","tag-rodgers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-southampton","tag-southampton-football","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-switzerland","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-switzerland","tag-xherdan-shaqiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","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=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}