{"id":37553,"date":"2014-08-07T08:10:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T08:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=37553"},"modified":"2014-08-07T08:10:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T08:10:50","slug":"karim-benzema-signs-new-contract-with-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=37553","title":{"rendered":"Karim Benzema signs new contract with Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Karim Benzema has ended speculation over his future after agreeing a contract extension with Real Madrid, keeping him at the Bernabeu until 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The striker\u2019s Real future had been in doubt following the summer arrivals of big-money signings Toni Koos and James Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Top sides throughout Europe have been monitoring the France international\u2019s availability, with Premier League clubs Arsenal and Liverpool thought to have been among his many admirers.<\/p>\n<p>Benzema, 26, joined Real from Lyon in 2009 in a deal thought to be worth around 40million euros. Over the past five seasons he has scored 111 goals in 233 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<p>A regular feature in France&#8217;s World Cup squad in Brazil last month, Benzema has scored 22 goals in 71 appearances for his country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Sky Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Benzema has ended speculation over his future after agreeing a contract extension with Real Madrid, keeping him at the Bernabeu until 2019. The striker\u2019s Real future had been in doubt following the summer arrivals of big-money signings Toni Koos and James Rodriguez. Top sides throughout Europe have been monitoring the France international\u2019s availability, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":37557,"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":[1963,29,3,561],"class_list":["post-37553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chief","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-grace-mugabe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37553","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=37553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}