Chinese Super League side Tianjin Quanjian have refuted claims that Alexandre Pato was seeking a move from the club.<\/p>\n
Reports suggested that the 28-year-old Brazilian forward is set for an imminent exit after he was omitted from Tianjin Quanjian’s squad for 2018 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs.<\/p>\n
However, Paulo Sousa played down suggestions Pato will leave in January, despite there were reports linking the player with a return to AC Milan.<\/p>\n
“Pato suffers a slight injury to his foot and is still well short of match fitness,” Sousa told Tianjin Sports Channel, revealed that Pato still recovers from a foot problem.<\/p>\n
“He is working towards attaining match fitness in time and back in full training. However, his foot injury prevents him from wearing football boots, so we could only create a special training plan for him at the moment.<\/p>\n
“As for the AFC Champions League, I think his name should be in the squad. I will check it later.”<\/p>\n
Teams could still submit their squad changes for the AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs by Januari 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chinese Super League side Tianjin Quanjian have refuted claims that Alexandre Pato was seeking a move from the club. Reports suggested that the 28-year-old Brazilian forward is set for an imminent exit after he was omitted from Tianjin Quanjian’s squad for 2018 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs. However, Paulo Sousa played down suggestions Pato will leave in January, despite there were reports linking the player with a return to AC Milan. “Pato suffers a slight injury to his foot and is still well short of match fitness,” Sousa told Tianjin Sports Channel, revealed that Pato still recovers from a foot problem. “He is working towards attaining match fitness in time … Continue reading “Tianjin Quanjian play down Alexandre Pato exit rumours”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[156,154,83,95,99],"class_list":["post-10635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-alexandre-pato","tag-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-slider","tag-tianjin-quanjian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}