{"id":77947,"date":"2014-12-29T10:53:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T10:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=77947"},"modified":"2014-12-29T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T10:53:52","slug":"torres-confirms-atletico-loan-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=77947","title":{"rendered":"Torres confirms Atletico loan move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spain striker Fernando Torres has agreed to return to Atletico Madrid on loan from AC Milan until the end of the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;qas5EyrglwRUcBvcDnvWVL9n3erwoCox&#8221;]Torres, 30, is going back to his boyhood club seven-and-a-half-years after leaving to join Liverpool.<br \/>\n&#8220;At last back home. Thanks to all that have made this dream come true. Forza @Atleti,&#8221; he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He joined Serie A club AC Milan from Chelsea, who paid a then British record transfer fee of \u00a350m in January 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Italian club confirmed a permanent deal for Torres, following its own initial two-year loan deal, on Saturday, but have allowed him to play for Atletico after Italy winger Alessio Cerci, 27, arrived from the Spanish side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Torres helped Chelsea to win the Champions League, Europa League and FA Cup while at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, Chelsea thanked the 2010 World Cup winner for &#8220;his service during the past four seasons&#8221; and wished him &#8220;the very best for the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain striker Fernando Torres has agreed to return to Atletico Madrid on loan from AC Milan until the end of the 2015-16 season. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;qas5EyrglwRUcBvcDnvWVL9n3erwoCox&#8221;]Torres, 30, is going back to his boyhood club seven-and-a-half-years after leaving to join Liverpool. &#8220;At last back home. Thanks to all that have made this dream come true. Forza @Atleti,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":77948,"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":[],"tags":[3,38],"class_list":["post-77947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}