{"id":5073,"date":"2017-07-06T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:22:47","slug":"axel-witsel-reveals-approach-bayern-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/06\/axel-witsel-reveals-approach-bayern-munich\/","title":{"rendered":"Axel Witsel reveals approach from Bayern Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Axel Witsel revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/28\/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-join-tianjin-quanjian-record-breaking-deal-reports\/\">Tianjin Quanjian<\/a> head coach Fabio Cannavaro has turned down an offer from Bayern Munich to sign the Belgium international last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two weeks ago, Carlo Ancelotti called Fabio Cannavaro to ask him if he could contact me. He wanted me at Bayern,&#8221; Witsel told <a href=\"http:\/\/sportmagazine.levif.be\/sport\/foot-international\/exclusif-witsel-ancelotti-me-voulait-au-bayern\/article-normal-687891.html\">Le Vif<\/a>\u00a0in his native Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old midfielder said talks about a move to Germany would never happen as he wanted to retain his loyalty to the 2006 World Cup winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Cannavaro replied to Ancelotti that he needed me. I have to take this into account, it is also him who brought me here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Witsel joined the Chinese Super League in January from Zenit St. Petersburg despite interest from Italian giants Juventus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axel Witsel revealed that Tianjin Quanjian head coach Fabio Cannavaro has turned down an offer from Bayern Munich to sign the Belgium international last month. &#8220;Two weeks ago, Carlo Ancelotti called Fabio Cannavaro to ask him if he could contact me. He wanted me at Bayern,&#8221; Witsel told Le Vif\u00a0in his native Belgium. The 28-year-old midfielder said talks about a move to Germany would never happen as he wanted to retain his loyalty to the 2006 World Cup winner. &#8220;But Cannavaro replied to Ancelotti that he needed me. I have to take this into account, it is also him who brought me here.&#8221; Witsel joined the Chinese Super League in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/07\/06\/axel-witsel-reveals-approach-bayern-munich\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Axel Witsel reveals approach from Bayern Munich&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[441,223,83,370,99],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-axel-witsel","tag-bayern-munich","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-fabio-cannavaro","tag-tianjin-quanjian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","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=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}