{"id":37739,"date":"2019-10-14T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37739"},"modified":"2019-10-14T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T17:09:06","slug":"esteghlal-fail-to-reach-agreement-with-gary-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/10\/14\/esteghlal-fail-to-reach-agreement-with-gary-hooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal fail to reach agreement with Gary Hooper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0<strong>Iranian football club Esteghlal failed to reach an agreement with English forward Gary Hooper.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year-old striker was scheduled to travel to Tehran to finalize his contract but two parties failed to reach an agreement in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal signed Malian striker Cheick Diabat\u00e9 during the summer transfer window but he has failed to meet expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hooper struggled with a groin problem for much of last season after having surgery and left Sheffield Wednesday on a free transfer at the end of the campaign, but a move could see the striker return to form and fitness, readceltic.com reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hooper scored or made 43 goals in 82 games for Sheffield Wednesday, who released him just hours after their final league game of last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celtic, Aston Villa, Fulham and Bristol City \u2013 as well as clubs in Major League Soccer \u2013 have all been credited with an interest since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under tutelage of Italian coach Andrea Stramaccioni, Esteghlal have bagged six points from six matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0Iranian football club Esteghlal failed to reach an agreement with English forward&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":760,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739","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=37739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37741,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739\/revisions\/37741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}