{"id":8399,"date":"2017-11-01T23:23:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2017-11-01T23:23:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:23:14","slug":"axel-witsel-moving-china-choice-made-money-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/01\/axel-witsel-moving-china-choice-made-money-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Axel Witsel on moving to China: My choice was made with money in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Axel Witsel admitted that the financial aspect had affected his decision to join Tianjin Quanjian and in turn turning down a move to Italia giants Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t deny that the economic aspect\u00a0was\u00a0important and my choice was made especially with the money in mind,&#8221; the Belgium international said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fichajes.net\/noticias\/confesion-witsel-20171031.html\">as quoted by Fichajes.net.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the project also interested me beyond Cannavaro\u2019s presence on the bench and I spoke to him often before reaching my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witsel joined Tianjin Quanjian from Zenit St Petersburg in the winter transfer window \u2013 a move which reportedly earns him \u20ac18 million annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axel Witsel admitted that the financial aspect had affected his decision to join Tianjin Quanjian and in turn turning down a move to Italia giants Juventus. \u201cI don\u2019t deny that the economic aspect\u00a0was\u00a0important and my choice was made especially with the money in mind,&#8221; the Belgium international said, as quoted by Fichajes.net. \u201cHowever, the project also interested me beyond Cannavaro\u2019s presence on the bench and I spoke to him often before reaching my decision.\u201d Witsel joined Tianjin Quanjian from Zenit St Petersburg in the winter transfer window \u2013 a move which reportedly earns him \u20ac18 million annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":8400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","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=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}