{"id":4443,"date":"2017-04-18T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/premier-league\/city-in-for-saints-defender-chelsea-must-stump-up-85m-for-torino-striker\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:00:05","slug":"city-in-for-saints-defender-chelsea-must-stump-up-85m-for-torino-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/premier-league\/city-in-for-saints-defender-chelsea-must-stump-up-85m-for-torino-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"City in for Saints defender, Chelsea must stump up \u00a385m for Torino striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"row clearfix\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12\">\n<div id=\"lead-photo\" class=\"photo-space\">\n<div id=\"picture-viewer\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/fe481cb4214ce39db83f545d86693c28.jpg\">&#013;<br \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>The latest gossip and rumours from the newspapers and online:<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are preparing to join Everton and Manchester City in the race to sign Southampton defender <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">VIRGIL VAN DIJK<\/span>, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>The Mirror reports that Chelsea have been told to meet <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">ANDREA BELOTTI<\/span>&#8216;s \u00a385million buyout clause if they want to land the Torino striker.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Star claims that Blues boss Antonio Conte is also pursuing Sporting Gijon defender <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">JORGE MERE<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester are keen on Middlesbrough centre-back <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">BEN GIBSON<\/span>, says the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Cologne&#8217;s former Blackburn forward <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">ANTHONY MODESTE<\/span> is a summer target for West Ham, according to the Bleacher Report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Source: PA<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- Article End --><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\t\tPlease enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"https:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.football.co.uk\/manchester-city\/city-in-for-saints-defender-chelsea-must-stump-up-85m-for\/8603023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From Football.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Sport \u2013 Sport News <a title=\"Football\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/football\/\">Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The latest gossip and rumours from the newspapers and online: Liverpool are preparing to join Everton and Manchester City in the race to sign Southampton defender VIRGIL VAN DIJK, according to the Daily Mail. The Mirror reports that Chelsea have been told to meet ANDREA BELOTTI&#8216;s \u00a385million buyout clause if they want to land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[85],"tags":[371,30,120,80,188],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-premier-league","tag-football-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}