{"id":130136,"date":"2020-01-31T14:52:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/31\/transfer-deadline-day-latest-on-joshua-king-mertens-giroud-and-more-live\/"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T13:52:37","slug":"transfer-deadline-day-latest-on-joshua-king-mertens-giroud-and-more-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=130136","title":{"rendered":"Transfer deadline day: latest on Joshua King, Mertens, Giroud and more \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the final day of the January transfer windowTransfer interactive \u2013 every deal from Europe\u2019s top five leaguesUnited consider new King bid with matter out of Howe\u2019s handsAnd you can email Tom, tweet him here or post BTL 1.52pm GMT Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has made it clear that he does not expect to make any further signings before tonight\u2019s deadline. Before anybody had the chance to ask him a question at his press conference this afternoon, the Tottenham manager said: \u201cAre you expecting anyone in? No. Are you happy with your market? Yes. Did you want a striker \u2026?\u201d The answer to that final question was yes. Mourinho said that he could not lie \u2013 it would have been infinitely preferable to have signed a striker. But, to paraphrase him, the market has not allowed it, despite the best efforts of everybody at the club. At the moment, it seems that the only action at Spurs before 11pm could involve whether Victor Wanyama stays or goes. 1.51pm GMT Undone deal Klaxon: the former Villarreal forward Cedric Bakambu\u2019s move to Barcelona has broken down at the last minute \u2013 while he was on his way to Catalonia.The Democratic Republic of the Congo striker was informed his move from Chinese side Beijing Sinobo Guoan had fallen through during a layover in Hong Kong. And he tweeted thus:Yo @Transfermarkt change my transfer history with &#8220;Almost @FCBarcelona&#8221; please No matter what happens we trust the process.Thank God for everything See you an other time @AntoGriezmann https:\/\/t.co\/eeOzZMU7V2 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2020\/jan\/31\/transfer-deadline-day-the-latest-on-mertens-giroud-rondon-and-more-live\" target=\"_blank\">Transfer deadline day: latest on Joshua King, Mertens, Giroud and more \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the final day of the January transfer windowTransfer interactive \u2013 every deal from Europe\u2019s top five leaguesUnited consider new King bid with matter out of Howe\u2019s handsAnd you can email Tom, tweet him here or post BTL 1.52pm GMT Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has made it clear that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}