{"id":33959,"date":"2014-07-23T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=33959"},"modified":"2014-07-23T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:59:18","slug":"barcelona-sign-france-defender-jeremy-mathieu-from-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=33959","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona sign France defender Jeremy Mathieu from Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Barcelona have signed France defender Jeremy Mathieu for a fee of \u00a315.8million from Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, who can operate at left-back or centre-back, has signed a four-year deal with the option of a further year.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a \u00a340million buy-out clause in the Frenchman&#8217;s contract.<\/p>\n<p>Six foot four inch Mathieu started his career with Sochaux, before joining Toulouse and then Valencia in 2009, going on to make 177 appearances for the La Liga side.<\/p>\n<p>Two of Mathieu&#8217;s four goals last season came against Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Also a full international, albeit with only two caps to date, Mathieu&#8217;s signing is seen by many in Spain to be filling the gap in Barcelona&#8217;s defence left by the retired Carlos Puyol.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Sky Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona have signed France defender Jeremy Mathieu for a fee of \u00a315.8million from Valencia. The 30-year-old, who can operate at left-back or centre-back, has signed a four-year deal with the option of a further year. There is also a \u00a340million buy-out clause in the Frenchman&#8217;s contract. Six foot four inch Mathieu started his career with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33962,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[29,3,1807,242,1806],"class_list":["post-33959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-school-of-law","tag-ghana-water-company-limited","tag-kwaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33959","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}