Chinese Super League side Shandong Luneng deny rumors they will hire Arsenal manager\u00a0Arsene Wenger to replace current coach Li Xiaopeng.<\/p>\n
Wenger\u00a0has reportedly received an offer<\/a> from the Chinese Super League which would make him the highest-paid manager in the world.<\/p>\n However,\u00a0Shandong Luneng announced on Tuesday that the Frenchman would not be taking over as the club’s manager.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are surprised to learn from our friends online that Mr. Wenger will be transferring to our club,\u201d Shandong said in a posting on Weibo, as quoted by Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShould we prepare a welcome dinner for him? We\u2019re afraid the Professor won\u2019t be a fan of our local style barbecue, so we are not inviting him over. We\u2019re very comfortable with our own Professor Li.\u201d<\/p>\n Wenger recently confirmed he would step down from his role as Arsenal manager after 22 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chinese Super League side Shandong Luneng deny rumors they will hire Arsenal manager\u00a0Arsene Wenger to replace current coach Li Xiaopeng. Wenger\u00a0has reportedly received an offer from the Chinese Super League which would make him the highest-paid manager in the world. However,\u00a0Shandong Luneng announced on Tuesday that the Frenchman would not be taking over as the club’s manager. \u201cWe are surprised to learn from our friends online that Mr. Wenger will be transferring to our club,\u201d Shandong said in a posting on Weibo, as quoted by Reuters. \u201cShould we prepare a welcome dinner for him? We\u2019re afraid the Professor won\u2019t be a fan of our local style barbecue, so we are … Continue reading “Shandong Luneng deny Arsene Wenger rumors”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[82,83,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741"}],"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=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}