{"id":18824,"date":"2014-07-13T06:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18824"},"modified":"2014-07-13T06:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T13:10:48","slug":"southampton-swansea-and-hull-in-for-iran-world-cup-stars-pooladi-and-hajsafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/07\/13\/southampton-swansea-and-hull-in-for-iran-world-cup-stars-pooladi-and-hajsafi\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton, Swansea and Hull in for Iran World Cup stars Pooladi and Hajsafi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dailystar.co.uk &#8211; LONDON,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\">IRAN World Cup stars Mehrdad Pooladi and Ehsan Hajsafi are being lined up for moves to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Both are available on frees this summer and are interesting English clubs. Southampton and Swansea are carefully watching developments surrounding left-back Pooladi, 27, while Hull are doing likewise with left winger Hajsafi, 24.<\/p>\n<p>Pooladi, capped 23 times, was the pick of the Iranian side that performed so well during World Cup group clashes against Nigeria and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>He plays for Iranian club Persepolis but has been given permission to look for a new club in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>And Pooladi, who topped his nation\u2019s official individual FIFA rankings in Brazil, would jump at the chance of coming to England.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to the Iranian camp told the Daily Star Sunday: \u201cMehrdad loves the Premier League and would choose there ahead of anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is interest in him from clubs in England \u2013 and also in his team-mate Hajsafi.\u00a0&#8220;In the coming weeks both hope to secure transfers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hajsafi\u2019s international debut came back in 2008 when 17. He has since made 64 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>As well as Hull\u2019s interest, big-spenders Fulham and Cardiff are also tracking the Sepahan FC playmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dailystar.co.uk &#8211; LONDON,\u00a0IRAN World Cup stars Mehrdad Pooladi and Ehsan Hajsafi are being lined up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":18825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5921,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}