{"id":12977,"date":"2012-05-27T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/27\/denizli-i-am-ready-to-return-to-besiktas\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:48:36","slug":"denizli-i-am-ready-to-return-to-besiktas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/27\/denizli-i-am-ready-to-return-to-besiktas\/","title":{"rendered":"Denizli: I am ready to return to Besiktas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"DenizliPerspolis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DenizliPerspolis.jpg\" height=\"265\" width=\"280\" \/>GOAL &#8211; ISTANBUL, <strong>Persepolis coach Mustafa Denizli has admitted that he would welcome the opportunity to return to Besiktas ahead of the 2012-13 campaign.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old previously coached the Turkish giants from 2008 until 2010, and is reportedly one of the candidates to replace Tayfur Havutcu as the man in charge of the Istanbul outfit. <\/p>\n<p>Havutcu replaced Carlos Carvalhal as Besiktas coach early in April, but he&#8217;s expected to step down as trainer this summer in order to make way for a high-profile name, with Denizli supposedly sitting in pole position to take the reins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t received an official offer from Besiktas yet. I have some things that I need to deal with here in Iran, but I am ready to return if Besiktas want me,&#8221; Denizli said to Vatan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club&#8217;s recent financial troubles are not important for me. Besiktas can fight for the title regardless of the players they have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besiktas have also been linked with Ralf Rangnick, Zico and Hristo Stoichkov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; ISTANBUL, Persepolis coach Mustafa Denizli has admitted that he would welcome the opportunity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3036,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}