{"id":285957,"date":"2011-03-01T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/01\/manchester-city-ready-to-tie-down-nigel-de-jong-with-25m-contract-report\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T18:13:00","slug":"manchester-city-ready-to-tie-down-nigel-de-jong-with-25m-contract-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/01\/manchester-city-ready-to-tie-down-nigel-de-jong-with-25m-contract-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City ready to tie down Nigel de Jong with \u00a325m contract &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4>1 Mar 2011 18:13:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"66.816277678\">\n<div readability=\"15.0494505495\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nigel De Jong,Manchester City(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6c7a0861113843_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nigel De Jong,Manchester City(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"31.311827957\"><\/p>\n<p>        <em>For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2559\/rumours\/archive\/1\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a> are said to be ready to offer midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/netherlands\/4138\/nigel-de-jong\">Nigel de Jong<\/a> an enticing new \u00a325 million contract to keep him at the club for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch international has been an ever-present for City in their attempt to finish in the Champions League places this season.<\/p>\n<p>And although the 26-year-old is not even halfway through his four-and-a-half-year contract he signed in January 2009, City are keen to keep him well beyond the end of his current contract, and are ready to increase his wages to \u00a3120,000, according to the <em>Manchester Evening News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>De Jong hasn\u2019t played in almost a month since picking up an ankle injury against Birmingham in a 2-2 draw, and is also likely to miss the fifth round FA Cup tie against Aston Villa on Wednesday night, though boss Roberto Mancini is hopeful of a return at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian maintains that De Jong is an important first-team player, and is quoted as saying: \u201cNigel is a very important player for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have another player like Nigel who can play in front of the defence and win back a lot of balls for us during the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s important in the dressing room too, because he is a good guy, he has experience and he\u2019s a leader. But I would prefer him to be back on the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6c7a0861113843_news-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/01\/2374819\/manchester-city-ready-to-tie-down-nigel-de-jong-with-25m\" title=\"Manchester City ready to tie down Nigel de Jong with \u00a325m contract - report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City ready to tie down Nigel de Jong with \u00a325m contract &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 Mar 2011 18:13:00 Nigel De Jong,Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here . Manchester City are said to be ready to offer midfielder Nigel de Jong an enticing new \u00a325 million contract to keep him at the club for the rest of his career. The Dutch international has been an ever-present for City in their attempt to finish in the Champions League places this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manchester City ready to tie down Nigel de Jong with \u00a325m contract - report - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/01\/manchester-city-ready-to-tie-down-nigel-de-jong-with-25m-contract-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Manchester City ready to tie down Nigel de Jong with \u00a325m contract - report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"1 Mar 2011 18:13:00 Nigel De Jong,Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players For all the latest reports and transfer rumours, visit our dedicated section here . 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