{"id":326665,"date":"2017-06-09T06:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T06:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326665"},"modified":"2017-06-09T06:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T06:34:05","slug":"manchester-united-set-to-release-zlatan-ibrahimovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326665","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United set to release Zlatan Ibrahimovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-body\" class=\"story-body sp-story-body gel-body-copy\">\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Manchester United are not expected to offer striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic a new contract when his current deal expires on 30 June.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old agreed a one-year contract, with an option for second season, last summer.<\/p>\n<p>But the extension had not been triggered by the time the Swede suffered his season-ending knee ligament injury in April.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League&#8217;s retained list will be released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Former England defender John Terry will be among the high-profile free agents available this summer, following his exit from Chelsea, while Manchester City have already confirmed goalkeeper Willy Caballero, winger Jesus Navas and full-backs Gael Clichy and Bacary Sagna are to be released.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Joey Barton is also looking for a new club after his release from Burnley, although he is serving an 18-month ban for betting offences.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahimovic made 46 appearances in all competitions this season, scoring 28 goals, and helped Jose Mourinho&#8217;s team lift the Community Shield, the League Cup and the Europa League trophy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer id=\"story-footer\" class=\"story-footer\">\n<div class=\"clearfix gel-mb+\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are not expected to offer striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic a new contract when his current deal expires on 30 June. The 35-year-old agreed a one-year contract, with an option for second season, last summer. But the extension had not been triggered by the time the Swede suffered his season-ending knee ligament injury in April. [&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":[1],"tags":[104,4166],"class_list":["post-326665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-manchester-united","tag-zlatan-ibrahimovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326665","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=326665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}