{"id":179160,"date":"2016-01-05T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=179160"},"modified":"2016-01-05T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T12:00:55","slug":"arda-turan-aleix-vidal-set-for-barcelona-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=179160","title":{"rendered":"Arda Turan &#038; Aleix Vidal set for Barcelona debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Barcelona summer signings Aleix Vidal and Arda Turan could make their debuts this week after the 14-month ban on the club registering players expired.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Vidal signed for \u00a313m from Sevilla and will wear 22 while 28-year-old midfielder Turan, who joined from Atletico Madrid, gets the No.7 shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The pair are eligible to face Espanyol in the Copa del Rey on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The boss knows we have been training for months to be in prime condition when he needs us,&#8221; said Vidal, 26.<\/p>\n<p>Turan &#8211; who has 87 caps for Turkey &#8211; signed for \u00a326m from Atletico, where he won La Liga and reached the Champions League final under Diego Simeone.<\/p>\n<p>Right-back Vidal helped Sevilla to Europa League success last season and is expected to eventually replace Dani Alves.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa imposed the ban on Barcelona for breaking rules on signinginternational youth players.<\/p>\n<p>An appeal to Fifa was dismissed, as was another appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being unable to sign players in 2015, Barcelona won La Liga, the Copa del Rey, the Champions League, the World Club Cup and the Super Cup.<\/p>\n<p>They sit in second place in La Liga, two points adrift of leaders Atletico with a game in hand, and are in the last 16 of the Champions League, where they face Arsenal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-feature image full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.files.bbci.co.uk\/141B\/production\/_87474150_barca.jpg\" alt=\"Arda Turan and Aleix Vidal\" width=\"624\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Barcelona tweeted an image of their summer signings sporting their shirt numbers<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona summer signings Aleix Vidal and Arda Turan could make their debuts this week after the 14-month ban on the club registering players expired. Defender Vidal signed for \u00a313m from Sevilla and will wear 22 while 28-year-old midfielder Turan, who joined from Atletico Madrid, gets the No.7 shirt. The pair are eligible to face Espanyol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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-179160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179160","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=179160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}