{"id":2650,"date":"2014-06-09T20:28:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2014-06-09T20:28:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T13:28:24","slug":"luke-shaw-said-he-would-join-manchester-united-on-the-final-premier-league-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/luke-shaw-said-he-would-join-manchester-united-on-the-final-premier-league-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Shaw said he would join Manchester United on the final Premier League day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke Shaw told Southampton on the final day of the Premier League season that he wanted to join Manchester United.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old left-back’s transfer to Old Trafford has been delayed due to his selection by England for the World Cup but a \u00a327million move should go through after the tournament in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Chelsea and Manchester City had hoped to hijack the deal but Shaw’s mind was made up by May 11, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n

Following Southampton’s 1-1 draw with United on the final day of the season, Shaw told Saints bosses during a function at the team hotel of his intention to join the Red Devils this summer.<\/p>\n

His actions are not dissimilar to those of Pascal Chimbonda, who infuriated Wigan by handing then boss Paul Jewell a transfer request while leaving the pitch following the final game of the season in 2006.<\/p>\n

Shaw, however, has long been expected to leave Southampton this summer and join one of England’s biggest clubs. Sportsmail broke the news that Shaw’s move to United was all but a done on May 12….<\/p>\n

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Luke Shaw told Southampton on the final day of the Premier League season that he wanted to join Manchester United. The 18-year-old left-back’s transfer to Old Trafford has been delayed due to his selection by England for the World Cup but a \u00a327million move should go through after the tournament in Brazil. Chelsea and Manchester […]<\/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":[2,85,84],"tags":[814,819,151,417,111,820,808,811,116,356,30,113,816,818,1271,809,375,114,120,449,815,769,80,188,821,753,812,374,810,817,1270,813],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-premier-league","category-world-cup","tag-bbc","tag-boss-paul-jewell","tag-brazil","tag-chelsea","tag-england","tag-england-biggest-clubs","tag-luke-shaw","tag-luke-shaw-wanted-to-join-manchester-united","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-old-trafford","tag-pascal-chimbonda","tag-paul-jewell","tag-premier-league","tag-premier-league-season","tag-red-devils","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-southampton","tag-southampton-draw-united","tag-southampton-football","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-sportsmail","tag-the-red-devils","tag-tournament-in-brazil","tag-united","tag-wanted-to-join-manchester-united","tag-wigan","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-tournament-in-brazil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","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=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}