{"id":13069,"date":"2012-07-13T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T01:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/13\/nekounam-future-to-be-decided-on-sunday\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T01:48:27","slug":"nekounam-future-to-be-decided-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/13\/nekounam-future-to-be-decided-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nekounam future to be decided on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Nekounam-running\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Nekounam-running.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Javad Nekounam&#8217;s future will be decided on Sunday, Iranian and Spanish sources report alike.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Iran captain is Osasuna&#8217;s highest paid player and Osasuna is eager to either reduce his salary or transfer him to another team. <\/p>\n<p>Nekounam has offers from Qatar&#8217;s Al Gharafa and Iran&#8217;s Esteghlal, but has little interest in the first due to family reasons whereas the Tehran giants are unwilling to pay the demanded transfer fee of \u20ac2.5 million. <\/p>\n<p>However, recent reports suggest that Nekounam&#8217;s transfer to Esteghlal will take place anyhow. <\/p>\n<p>Talks between Osasuna&#8217;s management and Nekounam agent Reza Fazeli on Thursday seem to have been unsuccessful with the defensive midfielder&#8217;s return him after seven years abroad, six of them in La Liga, is becoming very likely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing negotiations with Nekounam, the player is ready to join Esteghlal and will have to negotiate with Osasuna officials to release him,\u201d Esteghlal&#8217;s general manager Ali Fatollahzadeh was quoted by &#8216;Tehran Times&#8217;.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cNekounam will sign a contract with Esteghlal on Sunday,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>The transfer would shrink Iran&#8217;s formerly large contingent of European based players to three: Masoud Shojaei at Osasuna, Ashkan Dejagah at Vfl Wolfsburg and Alireza Haghighi at Rubin Kazan. Omid Nazari of \u00c4ngelholms FF still has to debut for Team Melli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; TEHRAN, Javad Nekounam&#8217;s future will be decided on Sunday, Iranian and Spanish sources&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":5824,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}