{"id":337188,"date":"2017-07-17T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T16:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337188"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T16:23:44","slug":"mubarak-wakaso-signs-three-year-deal-with-deportivo-alaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337188","title":{"rendered":"Mubarak Wakaso signs three year deal with Deportivo Alaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana midfielder Mubarak Wakaso has signed a three year deal with Spanish side Deportivo Alaves Citisports can confirm.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has chosen to return to Spain after joining Greek side Panathinaikos last season.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-working enforcer was one of the top performers for Granada despite their failure to beat the drop.<\/p>\n<p>He has been linked with several clubs in Europe including Atlanta, Genoa and Celta Vigo but he naturally picked a return to the Spanish League.<\/p>\n<p>Wakaso will become the\u00a0eighth addition of the Victorians, in addition to Zubeld\u00eda, the new coach of the runner-up of the Copa del Rey.<\/p>\n<p>The former youth player of Ghanaian side Ashanti Gold SC arrived in Spain to join Elche but his stay at the Alicante side did not end well as he released.<\/p>\n<p>Then he landed at Villarreal B and made his debut with the first team.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, after a payment of 300,000 Euros, he joined Espanyol and, after a fee of 6 million Euros he joined Russian side Rubin Kazan.<\/p>\n<p>He has also played for Celtic, Las Palmas, and Elche.<\/p>\n<p>Deportivo Alaves finished 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0on the league table last season and will be hoping to continue their stellar performances thus the need to continue bring in quality players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana midfielder Mubarak Wakaso has signed a three year deal with Spanish side Deportivo Alaves Citisports can confirm. The 27-year-old has chosen to return to Spain after joining Greek side Panathinaikos last season. The hard-working enforcer was one of the top performers for Granada despite their failure to beat the drop. He has been linked [&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":[9404,9405,3,9406,9407],"class_list":["post-337188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-celtic","tag-espanyol","tag-ghana-news","tag-las-palmas","tag-villareal-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337188","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=337188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}