{"id":20459,"date":"2017-12-21T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/21\/pep-guardiola-identifies-sanchez-and-van-dijk-as-manchester-citys-targets\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T13:39:00","slug":"pep-guardiola-identifies-sanchez-and-van-dijk-as-manchester-citys-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20459","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola identifies S\u00e1nchez and Van Dijk as Manchester City\u2019s targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Arsenal forward and Southampton defender wanted by league leaders\u2022 Guardiola also keen on midfielder with Yaya Tour\u00e9 set to leave in summerPep Guardiola has informed Manchester City\u2019s hierarchy that he would like to sign Arsenal\u2019s Alexis S\u00e1nchez and Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk, with both understood to have been identified as primary targets for the Premier League leaders.City, who will entertain Bournemouth on Saturday as they go in search of a 17th successive victory, are keen to strengthen in the January transfer window despite their record-breaking start to the season that has seen Guardiola\u2019s side establish a 11-point lead over Manchester United. Having failed to agree a deal for S\u00e1nchez in the summer after Arsenal decided against cashing in on the Chile forward despite him entering the final year of his contract, a renewed approach next month appears likely despite Ars\u00e8ne Wenger reiterating his stance that the 29-year-old will not be allowed to leave the Emirates. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/dec\/21\/pep-guardiola-manchester-city-sanchez-van-dijk-targets\" target=\"_blank\">Pep Guardiola identifies S\u00e1nchez and Van Dijk as Manchester City\u2019s targets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Arsenal forward and Southampton defender wanted by league leaders\u2022 Guardiola also keen on midfielder with Yaya Tour\u00e9 set to leave in summerPep Guardiola has informed Manchester City\u2019s hierarchy that he would like to sign Arsenal\u2019s Alexis S\u00e1nchez and Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk, with both understood to have been [&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-20459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459","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=20459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}