{"id":140806,"date":"2015-08-05T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T10:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=140806"},"modified":"2015-08-05T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T10:43:53","slug":"manchester-uniteds-angel-di-maria-happy-to-join-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=140806","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United&#8217;s Angel Di Maria &#8216;happy&#8217; to join PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Angel Di Maria says he is &#8220;very happy&#8221; to be joining Paris St-Germain from Manchester United, a year after the Old Trafford club paid a British record \u00a359.7m for him.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina midfielder, 27, had a medical in Qatar on Tuesday ahead of his 63m euro (\u00a344.3m) move.<\/p>\n<p>He later <span class=\"text\">told beIN Sports:<\/span><span class=\"external-link-icon\">\u00a0<\/span> &#8220;I am very happy to join Paris St-Germain. They&#8217;re very important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither club has yet confirmed that the player&#8217;s move has gone through.<\/p>\n<p>Aspetar, a specialist sports hospital in Doha, announced on its Twitter feed on Tuesday that the player was there &#8220;for a medical test ahead of a proposed move&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Di Maria added: &#8220;They made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, so my objective was to arrive to Paris and to help them through the quarter-final barrier, because they have struggled in the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will try to do the best I can to help the club in those objectives and reach the final stages of the Champions League.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Di Maria did not join United on their pre-season tour of America, and manager <a style=\"text-decoration:none; color: #333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cheaptopamaxbuy.com\">cheaptopamaxbuy.com<\/a> Louis van Gaal had said he &#8220;did not know why&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He scored four goals in 32 United appearances after joining from Real Madrid last August.<\/p>\n<p>The South American started his Old Trafford career well with a goal and an assist in three of his first four games, including a chip in the 5-3 defeat at Leicester.<\/p>\n<p>But after being played <span class=\"text\">in six different positions,<\/span><span class=\"external-link-icon\">\u00a0<\/span> including central midfield and striker, a pelvic injury kept him out for the whole of December.<\/p>\n<p>Reports that he was unsettled in Manchester followed an attempted break-in at Di Maria&#8217;s home in Cheshire, in January.<\/p>\n<p>He was then sent off in the FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Arsenal on 9 March and did not start another game until the final match of the campaign at Hull, only to limp off with a hamstring injury after 23 minutes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"data-table-outer\">\n<table class=\"data-table\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"100%\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"heading\">\n<th class=\"left first\"><strong>Hit and miss? Manchester United&#8217;s biggest buys<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\">\u00a359.7m: Angel Di Maria from Real Madrid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row2\">\n<td class=\"left first\">\u00a337.1m: Juan Mata from Chelsea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\">\u00a330.8m: Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row2\">\n<td class=\"left first\">\u00a330: Rio Ferdinand from Leeds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\">\u00a329m: Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row2\">\n<td class=\"left first\">\u00a328.1m: Juan Sebastian Veron from Lazio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel Di Maria says he is &#8220;very happy&#8221; to be joining Paris St-Germain from Manchester United, a year after the Old Trafford club paid a British record \u00a359.7m for him. The Argentina midfielder, 27, had a medical in Qatar on Tuesday ahead of his 63m euro (\u00a344.3m) move. He later told beIN Sports:\u00a0 &#8220;I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":140807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-140806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}