{"id":32747,"date":"2018-07-14T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T17:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32747"},"modified":"2018-07-14T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T17:49:04","slug":"alireza-jahanbakhsh-targeted-by-leicester-city-as-riyad-mahrez-replacement-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/14\/alireza-jahanbakhsh-targeted-by-leicester-city-as-riyad-mahrez-replacement-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Jahanbakhsh targeted by Leicester City as Riyad Mahrez replacement [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leicestershire Live &#8211; LEICESTER, <strong>Alireza Jahanbakhsh is the latest name to be linked with a transfer to Leicester City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports in Jahanbakhsh\u2019s native Iran say the AZ Alkmaar winger has been pinpointed by Leicester as their preferred replacement for Riyad Mahrez, who this week departed for Manchester City in a \u00a360million move.<\/p>\n<p>Some outlets go as far to say Jahanbakhsh is set to fly to England to undergo a medical with a \u20ac22m (\u00a319.5m) offer accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is hot property after a superb campaign for AZ, scoring 21 goals in 33 games from the right wing to finish as the Eredivisie\u2019s top scorer. He also provided 12 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Following AZ\u2019s third-place finish in the Netherlands, Jahanbakhsh headed to Russia for the World Cup and was a member of the Iran side that came agonisingly close to escaping a group which included Spain and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, AZ technical director Max Huiberts said there was no current interest in Jahanbakhsh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be very nice if he was on the field at that first Europa League match,\u201d Huiberts told NH.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been interest, but not now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet&#8217;s hope that there is very little interest for him, although I can not imagine that. Maybe he will stay with AZ for a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jahanbakhsh has two years left on his contract with the Dutch club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicestershire Live &#8211; LEICESTER, Alireza Jahanbakhsh is the latest name to be linked with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1316,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32747","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=32747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32749,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32747\/revisions\/32749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}