{"id":334632,"date":"2017-07-07T08:59:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T08:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=334632"},"modified":"2017-07-07T08:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T08:59:16","slug":"gael-clichy-ex-man-city-defender-to-sign-for-turkish-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=334632","title":{"rendered":"Gael Clichy: Ex-Man City defender to sign for Turkish club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Former Manchester City left-back\u00a0Gael Clichy\u00a0is to join Turkish side Istanbul Basaksehir.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old was not offered a new contract at the Etihad at the end of the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n<p>The club have confirmed on social media that he will have a medical before signing a contract on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Clichy joined City from Arsenal in 2011, twice winning the Premier League title and EFL Cup with the club.<\/p>\n<p>The terms of the deal have not been revealed, but reports in Turkey suggest the former France defender will be paid 3m euros (\u00a32.6m) per season in a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Clichy will team up with former City and Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor who\u00a0signed for Istanbul Basaksehir\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayor scored six league goals as the side finished runners-up in the Turkish Super Lig last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Manchester City left-back\u00a0Gael Clichy\u00a0is to join Turkish side Istanbul Basaksehir. The 31-year-old was not offered a new contract at the Etihad at the end of the 2016-17 season. The club have confirmed on social media that he will have a medical before signing a contract on Friday. Clichy joined City from Arsenal in 2011, [&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-334632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334632","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=334632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}