Former Chelsea and Real Madrid midfielder Michael Essien has reportedly arrived in Indonesia in order to negotiate a contract deal with local side Persib Bandung.<\/p>\n
The Ghanaian footballer has been without a club since leaving Panathinaikos last year. As he is a free agent, Persib Bandung is not required to pay any transfer fee; however, the club will have to negotiate an acceptable salary for the UEFA Champions League winner.<\/p>\n
According to reports, Essien is asking for a salary worth of $800.000 a year, much more than what Persib Bandung is willing to pay.<\/p>\n
One of the highest earners from the Indonesian club, Sergio van Dijk, is currently playing on a $300.000-a-year contract, so it is difficult to see Persib paying nearly three times that much for the former Real Madrid midfielder.<\/p>\n
Previously, several high-profile footballers were also linked with a move to Persib Bandung, among them Didier Drogba, Robbie Keane, Ronaldinho and Dimitar Berbatov, but none of these rumors was materialized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Chelsea and Real Madrid midfielder Michael Essien has reportedly arrived in Indonesia in order to negotiate a contract deal with local side Persib Bandung. The Ghanaian footballer has been without a club since leaving Panathinaikos last year. As he is a free agent, Persib Bandung is not required to pay any transfer fee; however, the club will have to negotiate an acceptable salary for the UEFA Champions League winner. According to reports, Essien is asking for a salary worth of $800.000 a year, much more than what Persib Bandung is willing to pay. One of the highest earners from the Indonesian club, Sergio van Dijk, is currently playing on … Continue reading “Michael Essien arrives in Indonesia to sign contract with Persib Bandung – Reports”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[204,91,489,428,228],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-southeast-asia","tag-featured","tag-indonesia","tag-micheal-essien","tag-persib-bandung","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}