{"id":2676,"date":"2014-06-11T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2014-06-11T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:56:27","slug":"manchester-united-target-joao-miranda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/manchester-united-target-joao-miranda\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United target Joao Miranda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atletico Madrid defender Joao Miranda has revealed he is negotiating a move away from the Spanish champions and says he is in discussions with clubs in Spain’s Primera Division and the Premier League.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian centre-half was one of the crucial pillars of Diego Simeone’s side last year – his solid partnership with Diego Godin helping Atletico keep the tightest defence in Spain on their way to winning the league title.<\/p>\n

Atletico signed Miranda on a free transfer from Sao Paulo in 2011 and inserted a 30million euro (\u00a324.2m) buy-out clause into his latest contract renewal to wade off interest from rival clubs.<\/p>\n

However, the 29-year-old has insinuated he wants to leave the Vicente Calderon and explained that the buy-out clause will not necessarily be a stumbling block to interested clubs.<\/p>\n

‘I have received several offers and we are negotiating,’ Miranda told Radio ESPN.<\/p>\n

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Atletico Madrid defender Joao Miranda has revealed he is negotiating a move away from the Spanish champions and says he is in discussions with clubs in Spain’s Primera Division and the Premier League. The Brazilian centre-half was one of the crucial pillars of Diego Simeone’s side last year – his solid partnership with Diego Godin […]<\/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],"tags":[895,240,891,892,894,893,899,1267,371,887,30,1271,889,898,896,114,120,463,890,888,80,188,897],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-premier-league","tag-atletico","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-brazilian","tag-brazilian-joao-miranda","tag-diego-godin","tag-diego-simeone","tag-espn","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-joao-miranda","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-primera-division","tag-radio-espn","tag-sao-paulo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-spain","tag-spanish-champions","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-vicente-calderon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","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=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}