{"id":36908,"date":"2019-07-02T19:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36908"},"modified":"2019-07-02T19:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:30:59","slug":"zenits-reported-rogic-interest-could-give-celtic-a-golden-chance-to-sign-azmoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/07\/02\/zenits-reported-rogic-interest-could-give-celtic-a-golden-chance-to-sign-azmoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenit&#8217;s reported Rogic interest could give Celtic a golden chance to sign Azmoun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HITC &#8211; GLASGOW, <strong>Russian Premier League winner\u00a0Sardar Azmoun\u00a0has been linked with\u00a0Scottish Premiership\u00a0champions\u00a0Celtic\u00a0since 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celtic might just have been handed the best chance they will ever get to finally bring Sardar Azmoun to Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mirror\u00a0(22 April, page 48) reported last year that The Hoops were eyeing an ambitious swoop for a player who\u2019s \u2018Iranian Messi\u2019 moniker has followed him around for as long as memory will allow. That came approximately 12 months after Celtic first expressed their interest in Azmoun, who\u2019s \u00a310 million price-tag would have made him the Premiership champions\u2019 all-time record signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if this long-awaited switch is ever going to happen, it\u2019s now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0The Herald,\u00a0Zenit St Petersburg\u00a0are planning a \u00a39 million bid for Celtic\u2019s enigmatic midfielder\u00a0Tom Rogic. The Russian champions will have to do a lot better than that however, with Celtic demanding closer to \u00a315 million for the former Central Coast Mariners starlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offering Azmoun as part of the deal, however, might be enough to twist Celtic\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 24-year-old enjoyed the best season of his career after swapping Rubin Kazan for Zenit, netting 17 times in all competitions including three in four Europa League matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A clinical finisher with a fearsome leap, Azmoun looks every inch the natural-born goalscorer Celtic have needed since Moussa Dembele left for Lyon. If Zenit are willing to offer Azmoun for Rogic, the Hoops might just have to bite their hands off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HITC &#8211; GLASGOW, Russian Premier League winner\u00a0Sardar Azmoun\u00a0has been linked with\u00a0Scottish Premiership\u00a0champions\u00a0Celtic\u00a0since 2017. Celtic might&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2400,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908","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=36908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36910,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36908\/revisions\/36910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}