{"id":178551,"date":"2016-01-02T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=178551"},"modified":"2016-01-02T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T12:01:00","slug":"christian-atsu-chelsea-cancel-midfielders-loan-deal-with-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=178551","title":{"rendered":"Christian Atsu: Chelsea cancel midfielder&#8217;s loan deal with Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English Premier League champions Chelsea have cancelled\u00a0Ghanaian midfielder Christian Atsu&#8217;s loan deal with AFC Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>Atsu has endured a torrid season at the Cherries this season, featuring in just two League Cup games and none at all in the EPL.<\/p>\n<p>The player chances of a run in the team have also been ruined by recurring injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth who are currently 16th in the EPL, confirmed that Atsu had been recalled by Chelsea after they announced that a deal had been completed for Roma forward Juan Iturbe.<\/p>\n<p>Atsu joined newcomers Bournemouth on loan from Chelsea in the summer transfer window after spending an equally frustrating season at Everton.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether he will be given first-team opportunities at the Blues who themselves have had a disappointing first half of the season, or whether he will be shipped off again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Premier League champions Chelsea have cancelled\u00a0Ghanaian midfielder Christian Atsu&#8217;s loan deal with AFC Bournemouth. Atsu has endured a torrid season at the Cherries this season, featuring in just two League Cup games and none at all in the EPL. The player chances of a run in the team have also been ruined by recurring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":178568,"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":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178551","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/178568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}