{"id":38495,"date":"2020-01-21T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38495"},"modified":"2020-01-21T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:36:55","slug":"aston-villa-keen-on-rio-aves-mehdi-taremi-as-dean-smith-eyes-second-new-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/01\/21\/aston-villa-keen-on-rio-aves-mehdi-taremi-as-dean-smith-eyes-second-new-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa keen on Rio Ave&#8217;s Mehdi Taremi as Dean Smith eyes second new striker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sky Sports &#8211; ASTON, <strong>Aston Villa are keen on Rio Ave&#8217;s Mehdi Taremi as they look to sign a second striker in the January window after completing a deal for Mbwana Samatta.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iran international has scored six goals in 13 Portuguese top-flight games since a summer move from Al Gharafa, and he is said to be on Villa&#8217;s list of considerations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villa signed Samatta from Genk on a four-and-a-half-year contract on Monday evening and before the deal was completed, manager Dean Smith said the club was hoping to add one more.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something we&#8217;re talking about all the time,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;Suso [Villa sporting director Jesus Garc\u00eda Pitarch] believes the same as well, so it&#8217;s something we&#8217;re looking for and looking to press on with as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villa are also interested in signing Leicester striker Islam Slimani, who is currently on a season-long loan with Monaco, but a deal would be difficult to conclude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith was speaking as Villa also confirmed striker Jonathan Kodjia&#8217;s departure to Taremi&#8217;s former club in Qatar Al Gharafa, who are managed by ex-Watford and Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Sports &#8211; ASTON, Aston Villa are keen on Rio Ave&#8217;s Mehdi Taremi as they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1036,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38495","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=38495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38498,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38495\/revisions\/38498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}