{"id":9747,"date":"2017-12-20T03:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2017-12-20T03:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:05:41","slug":"john-obi-mikel-rules-return-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/12\/20\/john-obi-mikel-rules-return-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"John Obi Mikel rules out of return to Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Obi Mikel has ruled out his return to the Premier League with Everton in January, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/sport\/football\/667895\/John-Obi-Mikel-Everton-Chelsea-Premier-League-Transfer-News-Rumours-Gossip\">reports from the Daily Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Tianjin TEDA midfielder has been linked with a move to English club Everton when the transfer window of Chinese Super League reopens.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know where such a rumor came from, but this story is untrue,\u201d Mikel told\u00a0Tianjin TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to stay in the Chinese Super League and play for Teda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2018m sure there will be lots of speculation about me as the transfer window nears but this is a false rumour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old joined<a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/04\/03\/john-obi-mikel-scores-first-chinese-super-league-goal-tianjin-teda-win\/\"> Tianjin TEDA<\/a> from Chelsea\u00a0on a free transfer earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Obi Mikel has ruled out his return to the Premier League with Everton in January, according to reports from the Daily Star. The\u00a0Tianjin TEDA midfielder has been linked with a move to English club Everton when the transfer window of Chinese Super League reopens. I don\u2019t know where such a rumor came from, but this story is untrue,\u201d Mikel told\u00a0Tianjin TV. \u201cI want to stay in the Chinese Super League and play for Teda. \u201cI\u2018m sure there will be lots of speculation about me as the transfer window nears but this is a false rumour.\u201d The 30-year-old joined Tianjin TEDA from Chelsea\u00a0on a free transfer earlier this year. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[615,354,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747"}],"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=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}