{"id":39914,"date":"2020-08-03T09:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39914"},"modified":"2020-08-03T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:21:26","slug":"rangers-joins-leeds-united-in-pursuit-of-25-time-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/08\/03\/rangers-joins-leeds-united-in-pursuit-of-25-time-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers joins Leeds United in pursuit of 25-time international"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Football League World &#8211; GLASGOW, <strong>Rangers are said to have joined Leeds United in the race to sign KAA Gent defender Milad Mohammadi,\u00a0according to Het Nieuwsblad.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per Football Insider, Leeds has recently been linked with the signing of Mohammadi, who has made\u00a025 appearances\u00a0for the Iran national side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 26-year-old made 18 appearances for Gent this season, chipping in with two assists from full-back before being named in the Jupiler Pro League\u2019s Team of the Season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports from Belgian media outlet\u00a0Het Nieuwsblad\u00a0now claim that Rangers are interested in signing Mohammadi, who is\u00a0understood\u00a0to be available for a price of around \u00a36.3m this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is reported that Mohammadi \u201cenjoys\u201d interest from both sides with a potential move to the United Kingdom on the cards, with Europa League football or Premier League football potentially on the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leeds will be looking to strengthen their squad ahead of a long-awaited return to the top-flight this season, but are yet to make any moves in the transfer market as of yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammadi looks to be an exciting player who has clearly adapted to life in Belgium really well since joining from Akhmat Grozny in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leeds definitely need to bring in a natural left-back, as Barry Douglas is ageing and Gjanni Alioski plays better further forward, I feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leeds\u2019 squad needs bolstering as they don\u2019t have a lot of depth at the moment, and the addition of an accomplished left-back like Mohammadi, who has played at the highest level internationally, would be a step in the right direction this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football League World &#8211; GLASGOW, Rangers are said to have joined Leeds United in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39914","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":771,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39914","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=39914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39916,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39914\/revisions\/39916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}