{"id":31650,"date":"2018-05-01T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31650"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T18:43:09","slug":"leicester-city-in-transfer-tussle-for-world-cup-bound-striker-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/01\/leicester-city-in-transfer-tussle-for-world-cup-bound-striker-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City in transfer tussle for World Cup-bound striker &#8211; reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester Mercury &#8211; LEICESTER,\u00a0<strong>City named alongside Everton, Celtic, Wolves and Fulham in <\/strong>race<strong> for Iran&#8217;s Sardar Azmoun.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leicester City have been linked with a move for World Cup-bound hotshot Sardar Azmoun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/all-about\/leicester-city-fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City<\/a>\u00a0have,\u00a0 according to the Sunday People, joined Everton, Celtic, Wolves and Fulham in a transfer tussle for the 23-year-old Rubin Kazan striker, who will represent Iran in Russia this summer.<\/p>\n<p>While Azmoun\u2019s record for Kazan isn\u2019t great \u2013 just four goals in 26 appearances this season \u2013 his international strike-rate is exceptional, netting 23 goals in 31 caps for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>However, a City bid for Azmoun seems unlikely given the glut of strikers on the books at the King Power Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>City have Jamie Vardy, Shinji Okazaki and Kelechi Iheanacho as their options in attack with Claude Puel loaning out Leo Ulloa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/islam-slimanis-cost-per-minute-1519334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-action=\"1519334\" data-content-type=\"news\" data-track=\"false\" data-type=\"inline\" data-word-count=\"2\">Islam Slimani<\/a>\u00a0and Ahmed Musa in January to give the squad &#8220;more balance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Azmoun\u2019s international team-mate Saman Ghoddos, also a forward,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/leicester-city-taking-close-look-1261774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been linked with a transfer to City<\/a>\u00a0in recent months too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester Mercury &#8211; LEICESTER,\u00a0City named alongside Everton, Celtic, Wolves and Fulham in race for Iran&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2252,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31651,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31650\/revisions\/31651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}