{"id":35829,"date":"2019-03-21T17:18:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T00:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35829"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:18:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T00:18:46","slug":"ansarifard-linked-with-return-to-greece-aris-thessaloniki-interested-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/ansarifard-linked-with-return-to-greece-aris-thessaloniki-interested-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansarifard linked with return to Greece, Aris Thessaloniki interested [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; ATHENS, <strong>Iran international striker Karim Ansarifard could leave Nottingham Forest and return to Greece at the end of the season, according to SDNA.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ansarifard has scored just one Championship goal since joining Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s Nottingham Forest from Greek Super League giants Olympiakos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forest fans had big hopes for the Iranian international, who joined on a free transfer from owner Evangelos Marinakis\u2019s \u2018other club\u2019 Olympiakos back in September after a protracted saga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, Ansarifard netted 18 goals in 27 games for the Super League outfit last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the 28-year-old\u2019s time at the City Ground has been largely forgettable. He has scored just one goal in the Championship, coming in the recent 3-0 thrashing of Hull City, while eight of his nine appearances have come from the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, it is uncertain whether Ansarifard will still be a Forest player next season with manager Martin O\u2019Neill preferring other options in attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SDNA reports that Aris Thessaloniki would jump at the chance to bring the former Osasuna forward back to Greece should the opportunity arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ansarifard is currently under contract at Nottingham Forest until 2020, while the two-time European champion has the option to extend that deal by a further 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ATHENS, Iran international striker Karim Ansarifard could leave Nottingham Forest and return to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":808,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35829","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=35829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35831,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35829\/revisions\/35831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}