{"id":2666,"date":"2014-06-10T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:33:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:33:28","slug":"luke-shaw-agrees-on-manchester-united-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/luke-shaw-agrees-on-manchester-united-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Shaw agrees on Manchester United deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luke Shaw has agreed personal terms in principle with Manchester United on a deal worth an astonishing \u00a3160,000-a-week, Goal can reveal.<\/p>\n

The England defender, who does not turn 19 until July, will become the highest-paid teenager in world football when he completes his move from Southampton to Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Goal understands that Chelsea pulled out of the race to sign Shaw when they became aware of the \u00a38 million-a-year, five-year contract offer that he had received from United.<\/p>\n

Manager Jose Mourinho is a big admirer of the 18-year-old and is in the market for a left-back after releasing Ashley Cole but the Blues felt that they had been priced out of a move for the Saints youngster…<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

South Africa Today Sport – Football News – Manchester United – Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luke Shaw has agreed personal terms in principle with Manchester United on a deal worth an astonishing \u00a3160,000-a-week, Goal can reveal. The England defender, who does not turn 19 until July, will become the highest-paid teenager in world football when he completes his move from Southampton to Old Trafford. Goal understands that Chelsea pulled out […]<\/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":[868,417,419,111,862,1267,371,863,866,808,867,356,30,113,870,114,120,449,769,80,188,869,374,865,864],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-ashley-cole","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-football","tag-england","tag-england-defender","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-highest-paid-teenager-in-world-football","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-luke-shaw","tag-manager-jose-mourinho","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-old-trafford","tag-saints","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-southampton","tag-southampton-football","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-the-blues","tag-united","tag-united-football","tag-world-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","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=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}