{"id":419513,"date":"2011-05-08T09:32:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T09:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/08\/sunderland-to-swoop-for-john-mensah-bargain\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T09:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T09:32:53","slug":"sunderland-to-swoop-for-john-mensah-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/08\/sunderland-to-swoop-for-john-mensah-bargain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland To Swoop For John Mensah Bargain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"50\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28697\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/sunderland-to-swoop-for-john-mensah-bargain\/captain-john-mensah-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28697\" title=\"Sunderland to swoop for John Mensah bargain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/captain-John-Mensah.jpg\" alt=\"Sunderland have agreed a \u00a31million deal to make John Mensah's move to the Stadium of Light permanent, according to reports in the English media.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Mensah is likely to seal a permanent move to Sunderland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Sunderland have agreed a \u00a31million deal to make John Mensah\u2019s move to the Stadium of Light permanent, according to reports in the English media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ghana defender has been on loan with the Black Cats for two years after his \u00a38m move to Lyon from Rennes didn\u2019t work out.<\/p>\n<p>The French giants had priced Mensah out of a permanent switch to England but their likely omission from next year\u2019s Champions League means they will have to trim their wage bill.<\/p>\n<p>Big earners like Mensah are set to be culled and that has given Sunderland boss Steve Bruce the opportunity to sign the 28-year-old in a cut-price deal.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah has been one of a number of players troubled by persistent injury at the Stadium of Light this season but Bruce feels the cheap price justifies a move for the big defender.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/sunderland-to-swoop-for-john-mensah-bargain\/\" title=\"Sunderland To Swoop For John Mensah Bargain\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland To Swoop For John Mensah Bargain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. John Mensah is likely to seal a permanent move to Sunderland Sunderland have agreed a \u00a31million deal to make John Mensah\u2019s move to the Stadium of Light permanent, according to reports in the English media. The Ghana defender has been on loan with the Black Cats for two years after his \u00a38m move to Lyon from Rennes didn\u2019t work out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-419513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sunderland To Swoop For John Mensah Bargain - 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\/05\/08\/sunderland-to-swoop-for-john-mensah-bargain\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sunderland To Swoop For John Mensah Bargain - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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