{"id":21631,"date":"2020-01-02T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T04:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=21631"},"modified":"2020-01-02T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T04:56:59","slug":"jeju-uniteds-magno-cruz-snubs-muangthong-and-signs-for-umm-salal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/02\/jeju-uniteds-magno-cruz-snubs-muangthong-and-signs-for-umm-salal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeju United&#8217;s Magno Cruz Snubs Muangthong and Signs for Umm Salal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GianChansricha1\"><strong>Gian Chansrichawla<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Football Tribe SEA Editor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeju United striker Magno Cruz has signed with Qatar Stars League side Umm Salal, turning down a move to join Thai League side Muangthong United at the final hour in the process.<\/p>\n<p>With his contract up this season and with his side&#8217;s relegation to K-League 2, it seemed inevitable that Magno would look for a new club ahead of the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<p>Umm Salal currently sits bottom of the Qatar Stars League, having collected just five points from their opening 11 games, scoring just 7 goals in the process. Signing on what appears to be an initial six-month contract to run until the end of the current campaign, the side will be hoping Magno Cruz will provide some much-needed firepower upfront.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jeju United forward Magno Cruz has completed a move to Umm Salal, not Muangthong United. (SPOTV News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kleague?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#kleague<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ak3fGPbsZn\">pic.twitter.com\/Ak3fGPbsZn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Korea Football News (@KORFootballNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KORFootballNews\/status\/1212033373696221184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This move came as a surprise to many fans, who assumed that Magno could be signing for Muangthong United after widespread media reports seemingly confirmed the move.<\/p>\n<p>The Kirin even went as far as to schedule a press conference to announce a &#8216;new foreign signing,&#8217; which many presumed to be Magno Cruz, but was then later changed to a local player as the club <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/12\/27\/muangthong-announce-saharat-kanyaroj-signing\/\">announced their previously confirmed signing of Saharat Kanyaroj<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that, having already discussed a potential deal with Muangthong, the striker was tempted by what was a supposedly better offer from Umm Salal, and instead decided on a move to Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The striker spent three years with Jeju and made 90 K-League appearances for the club, scoring 24 goals and registering 8 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Chansrichawla Football Tribe SEA Editor &nbsp; Jeju United striker Magno Cruz has signed with Qatar Stars League side Umm Salal, turning down a move to join Thai League side Muangthong United at the final hour in the process. With his contract up this season and with his side&#8217;s relegation to K-League 2, it seemed inevitable that Magno would look for a new club ahead of the 2020 season. Umm Salal currently sits bottom of the Qatar Stars League, having collected just five points from their opening 11 games, scoring just 7 goals in the process. Signing on what appears to be an initial six-month contract to run until the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/01\/02\/jeju-uniteds-magno-cruz-snubs-muangthong-and-signs-for-umm-salal\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Jeju United&#8217;s Magno Cruz Snubs Muangthong and Signs for Umm Salal&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":21634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1638],"tags":[419,1952,104,437,1953],"class_list":["post-21631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qatar","category-transfer-news","tag-jeju-united","tag-magno-cruz","tag-muangthong-united","tag-qatar-stars-league","tag-umm-salal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631","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=21631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21641,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631\/revisions\/21641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}