{"id":20849,"date":"2019-11-07T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=20849"},"modified":"2019-11-07T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:32:43","slug":"consadole-sapporo-interested-in-david-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/11\/07\/consadole-sapporo-interested-in-david-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Consadole Sapporo Interested in David Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to various <a href=\"https:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20191105-00000080-spnannex-socc\">reports<\/a> in Japanese media, J.League side Consadole Sapporo are reportedly approaching Manchester City star David Silva for a move to Hokkaido. The Spanish midfielder&#8217;s contract with the English champions runs out at the end of the current European league season and could be available for a move to the far east on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>If the move does materialize, Silva will join fellow World Cup-winning Spanish stars in the J.League, including Andres Iniesta and David Silva, who are currently at Vissel Kobe.<\/p>\n<p>Since their promotion at the start of 2017, Consadole have become a well-renowned team across Asia. Their signing of Thai star Chanathip Songkrasin has garnered them a lot of attention in Thailand and boosted their image internationally. A potential capture of a star name like David Silva will help that image grow exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the side are sitting in 7th place with four games left in the season after narrowly missing out on AFC Champions League qualification with a 4th place finish last year.<\/p>\n<p>The side also currently field former Cardiff City and Queens Park Rangers striker Jay Bothroyd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to various reports in Japanese media, J.League side Consadole Sapporo are reportedly approaching Manchester City star David Silva for a move to Hokkaido. The Spanish midfielder&#8217;s contract with the English champions runs out at the end of the current European league season and could be available for a move to the far east on a free transfer. If the move does materialize, Silva will join fellow World Cup-winning Spanish stars in the J.League, including Andres Iniesta and David Silva, who are currently at Vissel Kobe. Since their promotion at the start of 2017, Consadole have become a well-renowned team across Asia. Their signing of Thai star Chanathip Songkrasin has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/11\/07\/consadole-sapporo-interested-in-david-silva\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Consadole Sapporo Interested in David Silva&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":20852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1638],"tags":[543,1885,57,359,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20849"}],"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=20849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20853,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20849\/revisions\/20853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}