{"id":35402,"date":"2019-02-05T18:42:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35402"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:45:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T02:45:37","slug":"persepolis-forward-godwin-mensha-drops-bombshell-by-moving-to-esteghlal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/02\/05\/persepolis-forward-godwin-mensha-drops-bombshell-by-moving-to-esteghlal\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis forward Godwin Mensha drops bombshell by moving to Esteghlal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis Nigerian striker Godwin Mensha dropped a transfer bombshell by joining Persepolis arch-rivals Esteghlal on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 30-year-old hitman has penned an 18-month deal with the Iranian giants for undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mensha made surprise move to Esteghlal after being deemed surplus to requirements at Persepolis in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis have signed Croatian striker Mario Budimir as Mensha\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis and Esteghlal are preparing for the second half of the Iran professional League and 2019 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal are in Group C with Al Hilal from Saudi Arabia, UAE side Al Ain and Qatar\u2019s Al Duhail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis have been drawn in Group D along with Al Sadd of Qatar and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Ahli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis Nigerian striker Godwin Mensha dropped a transfer bombshell by joining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl"],"views":1361,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35409,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35402\/revisions\/35409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}