{"id":147535,"date":"2015-08-31T05:19:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T05:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=147535"},"modified":"2015-08-31T05:19:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T05:19:31","slug":"van-gaal-man-utd-not-planning-any-panic-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=147535","title":{"rendered":"Van Gaal: Man Utd not planning any panic signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he will not make any panic signings before the transfer window closes on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United lost 2-1 at Swansea on Sunday and have scored just three goals in four league games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You can never speak as a club like Manchester United that you are satisfied,&#8221; Van Gaal said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But he added: &#8220;We shall not buy another player that we have not scouted before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Van Gaal has spent around \u00a380m on players this summer but after selling Robin van Persie to Fenerbahce and not replacing Radamel Falcao, he is short of striking options.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read in-depth analysis from MOTD2&#8217;s Jason Roberts on why Wayne Rooney needs help up front for Man Utd<br \/>\nCaptain Wayne Rooney scored a hat-trick in a comfortable Champions League win over Club Brugge in midweek but has not scored in the Premier League since April and wasted several good chances at the Liberty Stadium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United, who are five points behind leaders Manchester City, continue to be linked with several strikers but Van Gaal does not expect any last-minute moves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he will not make any panic signings before the transfer window closes on Tuesday evening. United lost 2-1 at Swansea on Sunday and have scored just three goals in four league games. &#8220;You can never speak as a club like Manchester United that you are satisfied,&#8221; Van Gaal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":147536,"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-147535","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\/147535","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}