{"id":150625,"date":"2015-09-11T06:28:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T06:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=150625"},"modified":"2015-09-11T06:28:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T06:28:55","slug":"dede-ayew-named-epls-best-player-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=150625","title":{"rendered":"Dede Ayew named EPL&#8217;s best player in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Andre Ayew has been named as the Barclays Premier League Player for the month of August.<\/p>\n<p>The former Marseille man picked up the award ahead of his Swansea City team-mate Bafetimbi Gomis \u00a0and Manchester City duo of David Silva and Aleksandr Kolarov.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew has scored three goals so far for Swansea in their four league matches played to help them place fourth with eight points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andre-Ayew-striking-home-his-goal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48975 \" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andre-Ayew-striking-home-his-goal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ayew scoring against Chelsea\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/andre-ayew-newcastle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48976 \" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/andre-ayew-newcastle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SWANSEA, WALES - AUGUST 15: Andre Ayew of Swansea City scores his team's second goal during the Barclays Premier League match between Swansea City and Newcastle United at Liberty Stadium on August 15, 2015 in Swansea, United Kingdom. (Photo by Stu Forster\/Getty Images)\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/andre-ayew-goal_3344179.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48977\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/andre-ayew-goal_3344179-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"andre-ayew-goal_3344179\" width=\"457\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian scored on his debut at Chelsea and against both Newcastle and Manchester United at the Liberty Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>While Ayew was named as the top player, Manchester City coach Manuel Pellegrini was awarded with the manager\u2019s gong for August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Manuel_1733641a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48974 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Manuel_1733641a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel Pellegrini\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chilean guided the Citizens to four straight wins without conceding and top place in the league.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Andre Ayew has been named as the Barclays Premier League Player for the month of August. The former Marseille man picked up the award ahead of his Swansea City team-mate Bafetimbi Gomis \u00a0and Manchester City duo of David Silva and Aleksandr Kolarov. Ayew has scored three goals so far for Swansea in their four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":150626,"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":[2],"tags":[29,38],"class_list":["post-150625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150625","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}