{"id":35753,"date":"2019-03-12T17:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35753"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:59:50","slug":"striker-sardar-azmoun-scores-five-in-five-after-january-move-to-wolves-falls-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/12\/striker-sardar-azmoun-scores-five-in-five-after-january-move-to-wolves-falls-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Striker Sardar Azmoun scores five in five after January move to Wolves falls through"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Boot Room &#8211; ST. PETERSBERG, <strong>Sardar Azmoun has impressed since his Wolves move fell through.<\/strong><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wolverhampton Wanderers spent much of the January transfer window searching for a new striker to compete with Raul Jimenez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their bid to finish seventh, Wolves felt they needed another striker to push Jimenez for the starting spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sardar Azmoun was close to agreeing a move from Rubin Kazan, initially on loan ahead of a permanent summer move. But this is where the deal broke down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sky Sports News, Wolves wanted an option to buy, while Rubin Kazan insisted on an obligation to buy with a pre-set transfer fee of \u00a311.5m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wolves pulled the plug on this potential deal and Azmoun instead stayed in Russia, moving to Zenit St Petersburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since his switch to Zenit, the 24-year-old has been in sensational form. With five goals in five matches, he is showing signs that he could have been a success at Wolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azmoun is highly rated by club and country; the Iran international has scored 28 goals in just 45 games for the national team, earning the nickname \u2018Iranian Messi\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether he would have been an instant hit in England remains to be seen but his natural aptitude for scoring goals suggests he was worth a punt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wolves have no guarantees over whether they will be able to make Raul Jimenez\u2019s deal permanent next summer so Azmoun would have been a shrewd acquisition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boot Room &#8211; ST. PETERSBERG, Sardar Azmoun has impressed since his Wolves move fell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35753","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":1384,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753","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=35753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35755,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions\/35755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}