{"id":6002,"date":"2017-08-12T23:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2017-08-13T02:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T17:04:52","slug":"paulinho-verge-joining-barcelona-guangzhou-evergrande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/12\/paulinho-verge-joining-barcelona-guangzhou-evergrande\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulinho on the verge of joining Barcelona from Guangzhou Evergrande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are on the verge of signing of Brazilian midfielder Paulinho from Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande on a \u00a336.5million deal, as reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/barcelona-set-sign-former-tottenham-10975344\">The Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paulinho has been the target of Barcelona all summer. The Spanish La Liga powerhouse opened with an offer of \u00a317million in July but have since significantly increased their offer after unexpectedly losing key player Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>Joining in a \u00a317million deal from Corinthians, Paulinho was struggling to make an impact at Tottenham Hotspurs. He made 67 appearances for two seasons, scoring 11 times, but was eventually sold for a fee of around \u00a310million to <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/12\/guangzhou-evergrande-reject-third-offer-barcelona-paulinho\/\">Guangzhou Evergrande<\/a> in the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In the Far East, the 29-year-old has been back to his form under the guidance of former Brazilian national football team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.<\/p>\n<p>His impressive performance earned him a recall for the national side, where he netted against Argentina in a 2018 World Cup qualifier, and also grabbed a hat-trick against Uruguay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona are on the verge of signing of Brazilian midfielder Paulinho from Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande on a \u00a336.5million deal, as reported by The Mirror. Paulinho has been the target of Barcelona all summer. The Spanish La Liga powerhouse opened with an offer of \u00a317million in July but have since significantly increased their offer after unexpectedly losing key player Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain. Joining in a \u00a317million deal from Corinthians, Paulinho was struggling to make an impact at Tottenham Hotspurs. He made 67 appearances for two seasons, scoring 11 times, but was eventually sold for a fee of around \u00a310million to Guangzhou Evergrande in the summer of 2015. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/08\/12\/paulinho-verge-joining-barcelona-guangzhou-evergrande\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Paulinho on the verge of joining Barcelona from Guangzhou Evergrande&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[124,83,95],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-barcelona","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","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=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}