{"id":47682,"date":"2022-12-08T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=47682"},"modified":"2022-12-08T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:21:42","slug":"man-utd-legend-helping-iran-star-who-netted-vs-england-secure-premier-league-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/12\/08\/man-utd-legend-helping-iran-star-who-netted-vs-england-secure-premier-league-move\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Man Utd legend &#8216;helping&#8217; Iran star who netted vs England secure Premier League move<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dailystar.co.uk &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand is reportedly in contact with Mehdi Taremi&#8217;s agent over a potential transfer to the Premier League for the Iran and Porto star<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rio Ferdinand is reportedly helping Iranian striker Mehdi Taremi secure a move to the&nbsp;Premier League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taremi netted twice for Iran against England in their&nbsp;World Cup&nbsp;opener and remains the only man to best Jordan Pickford at the tournament. It appears the Porto striker could now be set for a big move to the country he suffered a 6-2 drubbing to last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A report by Portuguese outlet&nbsp;<em>A Bola<\/em>&nbsp;claims&nbsp;Manchester United&nbsp;legend Ferdinand has signed a contract with Taremi\u2019s agent to help him find a move to a \u2018top\u2019 Premier League club in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 30-year-old has been in magnificent form this season for Porto, netting 13 goals and notching eight assists in just 19 appearances. But it appears a big move has now caught the Iranian striker\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"amp-readmore-target\">Taremi is understood to have just 18 months left on his current deal. That, in spite of his rumoured \u00a352million release clause, could lead the reigning Portuguese champions to entertain a lower offer for their ageing star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ferdinand also has previous ties with the forward. He stunned fans during BBC\u2019s coverage of England vs Iran when he said live on air: \u201cI know him quite well. I spoke to him on the phone a few times, he\u2019s a really good guy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presenter Gary Lineker asked in response: \u201cWhere do you know him from?\u201d to which a tight-lipped Ferdinand replied: \u201cI just knew him from a bit of business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taremi\u2019s reported move comes amid several top Premier League clubs looking for a new number-9. Chelsea have alternated between Kai Havertz, Armando Broja and new arrival Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang this season, with none convincingly stamping their claim on the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s abrupt departure from Manchester United also leaves a huge gap up-top without a true out-and-out striker for Erik ten Hag to rely on for goals. Meanwhile,&nbsp;Arsenal&nbsp;suffered a blow to their title ambitions this week when it was announced star striker Gabriel Jesus would be out of the World Cup due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dailystar.co.uk &#8211; LONDON, Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand is reportedly in contact with Mehdi Taremi&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":47683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,212,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iranian-legionnaires","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2060,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47682","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47688,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47682\/revisions\/47688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}