{"id":235606,"date":"2016-07-30T19:55:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235606"},"modified":"2016-07-30T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T19:55:01","slug":"chelseas-baba-rahman-close-to-joining-schalke-on-a-loan-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235606","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea&#8217;s Baba Rahman close to joining Schalke on a loan deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian international\u00a0Baba Rahman is expected to join German side Schalke on loan from Chelsea in the coming days, <strong>Citi Sports<\/strong> understands.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old defender will return to Germany just a year after signing for the Blues from Augsburg.<\/p>\n<p>The move to Chelsea is hours away as the player\u2019s Ghanaian manager Kurt Okraku has flown to Germany to help tie up the final details of the move.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea paid a whooping 21 million pounds for the defender and were initially reluctant to let him leave after just a season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/schalke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60353\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/schalke.jpg\" alt=\"schalke\" width=\"556\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Rahman enjoyed maximum success under now Schalke manager Markus Weinzierl during his Augburg days and has opted for a return to Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi Sports<\/strong> understands that other clubs like Wolfsburg and Lazio wanted to take Baba on loan but the Ghanaian opted for Schalke.<\/p>\n<p>Rahman played in 15 league games and 22 games in total in what was a topsy-turvy for the dethroned English Champions.<\/p>\n<p>By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian international\u00a0Baba Rahman is expected to join German side Schalke on loan from Chelsea in the coming days, Citi Sports understands. The 23-year-old defender will return to Germany just a year after signing for the Blues from Augsburg. The move to Chelsea is hours away as the player\u2019s Ghanaian manager Kurt Okraku has flown to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235607,"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-235606","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\/235606","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=235606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}