{"id":9130,"date":"2017-11-28T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2017-11-28T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:22:04","slug":"singapore-club-albirex-niigata-players-new-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/11\/28\/singapore-club-albirex-niigata-players-new-club\/","title":{"rendered":"S-League club Albirex Niigata’s players told to “look for a new club”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After winning the second straight quadruple of Singapore trophies<\/a>,\u00a0Albirex Niigata players have been given the green light by the chairman to move to other clubs.<\/p>\n

Because the S-League is yet to hear about funding for next year, the uncertainty could perhaps lead to the break-up of this year’s all-conquering squad.<\/p>\n

Albirex chairman Daisuke Korenaga told The Straits Times<\/a>: “I sent my proposal (for the 2018 season) to the FAS (Football Association of Singapore) several times. This week, I called them every day asking for updates. But there has been no new information.<\/p>\n

“I need to tell my players about the situation honestly. I have no choice but to tell them that they are free to look for a new club.”<\/p>\n

But Korenaga ruled out the chance that Albirex would depart from Singapore football, ahead of what would be a 15th season here.<\/p>\n

“Definitely no,” he said when asked if there was the possibility of exiting the island. “We want to stay in the S-League and we want to be the leaders in terms of quality,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After winning the second straight quadruple of Singapore trophies,\u00a0Albirex Niigata players have been given the green light by the chairman to move to other clubs. Because the S-League is yet to hear about funding for next year, the uncertainty could perhaps lead to the break-up of this year’s all-conquering squad. Albirex chairman Daisuke Korenaga told The Straits Times: “I sent my proposal (for the 2018 season) to the FAS (Football Association of Singapore) several times. This week, I called them every day asking for updates. But there has been no new information. “I need to tell my players about the situation honestly. I have no choice but to tell them … Continue reading “S-League club Albirex Niigata’s players told to “look for a new club””<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855],"tags":[394,395,108],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-sea","tag-albirex-niigata","tag-s-league","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","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=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}