{"id":20673,"date":"2013-02-06T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/city-set-to-lead-cavani-chase\/"},"modified":"2013-02-06T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:03:00","slug":"city-set-to-lead-cavani-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/06\/city-set-to-lead-cavani-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"City set to lead Cavani chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MANCHESTER City coach, Angelo Gregucci, has revealed that the club is planning to move for Edinson Cavani in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Napoli striker has long been linked with a move to the Etihad Stadium, with his consistency in Serie A marking him out as one of the deadliest frontmen in European football.<\/p>\n<p>There are, however, a number of obstacles City will need to overcome if they are to put a deal in place for Cavani.<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguay international has a sizeable release clause in his contract and is also wanted by the likes of Chelsea and Real Madrid &#8211; clubs capable of competing with City financially.<\/p>\n<p>Gregucci has, however, told a Naples-based radio station: \u201cCity will definitely have competition for Cavani, who is dominating the Italian league with his goals and sacrifices for the team and whose contract has a \u00a355m buy-out clause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdinson is scoring a huge number of goals this season, and it will be difficult for City to take him. The 10 biggest clubs in Europe all have Cavani in their sights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City is in the market for a new striker after agreeing to offload Mario Balotelli to AC Milan towards the end of the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Gregucci believes that deal will be beneficial to all concerned, with City set to make a profit on the \u00a319million they paid Inter Milan for the fiery Italian back in 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> MANCHESTER City coach, Angelo Gregucci, has revealed that the club is planning to move for Edinson Cavani in the summer. The Napoli striker has long been linked with a move to the Etihad Stadium, with his consistency in Serie A marking him out as one of the deadliest frontmen in European football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}