{"id":36707,"date":"2014-08-04T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T08:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=36707"},"modified":"2014-08-04T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T08:23:58","slug":"arsene-wenger-queries-man-city-frank-lampard-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=36707","title":{"rendered":"Arsene Wenger queries Man City Frank Lampard deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" itemprop=\"description\">Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has questioned Manchester City&#8217;s signing of Frank Lampard.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Lampard, 36, will join City on a six-month loan deal from Major League Soccer franchise New York City &#8211; one of three clubs affiliated to the Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, City received sanctions on their squad after breaching Uefa&#8217;s Financial Fair Play regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it a way to get around the fair play? I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; said Wenger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like all of these &#8216;City&#8217; clubs will feed the main club Manchester City &#8211; I heard they want to buy five clubs all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know the rules well enough, but they bought a franchise for \u00a359.4m to play in the States next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<table>\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"50%\" \/>\n<col width=\"50%\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\">\n<h2>Blues around the world &#8211; Manchester City&#8217;s affiliated clubs<\/h2>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>New York City<\/td>\n<td>from 2013 (partnership with New York Yankees)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Melbourne City<\/td>\n<td>from 2014 (partnership with rugby league team Melbourne Storm)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yokohama F Marinos<\/td>\n<td>from 2014 (partnership with car maker Nissan)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>City have been restricted to a 21-man Champions League squad this year &#8211; with eight home-grown players required in their Premier League squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment the players they sign cannot play until next year so they will register them in the other clubs and can get out on loan,&#8221; added Wenger, who ruled out Arsenal employing similar methods in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are happy to dedicate the money to just run our club &#8211; there is not a lot of surplus to run other clubs, &#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has questioned Manchester City&#8217;s signing of Frank Lampard. Midfielder Lampard, 36, will join City on a six-month loan deal from Major League Soccer franchise New York City &#8211; one of three clubs affiliated to the Premier League champions. Last season, City received sanctions on their squad after breaching Uefa&#8217;s Financial Fair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":36713,"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":[1936,29,3,1937,1932],"class_list":["post-36707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-apologize","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-partisan-comments","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36707","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=36707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}