{"id":1018483,"date":"2022-03-11T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/11\/hearts-begin-long-term-deal-negotiations-with-sulley-muntari\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:29:33","slug":"hearts-begin-long-term-deal-negotiations-with-sulley-muntari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/11\/hearts-begin-long-term-deal-negotiations-with-sulley-muntari\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts begin long-term deal negotiations with Sulley Muntari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"680\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK7bU4lWQAwRhjf.jpg\"   alt=\"Sulley Muntari\" title=\"Sulley Muntari\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sulley Muntari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana Premier League champions, Hearts of Oak, have begun talks to hand Sulley Muntari a long term deal following his impressive early showings in the league, Joy Sports understands.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari was announced as a new Hearts player on February 1, 2022, and prior to his unveiling, the former Black Stars player had been training with the club.<\/p>\n<p>He signed a short-term deal with the Phobians but the club hierarchy believe he\u2019s shown enough to work longer with him.<\/p>\n<p>The midfield maestro made his debut five days later when the Phobians hosted Great Olympics in the Mantse Derby at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Muntari has gone on to make a further four appearances for the defending league leaders, amassing a total of 289 minutes during that time.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari played 14 minutes against Olympics, 80 against RTU. In the game against Kotoko and Legon Cities, he lasted 51 and 62 minutes respectively before play 82 minutes against WAFA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his first five games, the former Inter Milan man has started four, with his only substitute appearance being the debut game against Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>During his time with the Accra-based outfit, the 37-year-old has been involved in two goals, scoring against WAFA and assisting the goal in the 1-1 draw against Legon Cities.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari was also involved as Hearts beat Kotoko to clinch the 2022 President\u2019s Cup at the Accra Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"w7gAY9nA6ew\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ghana Deaf Sports Federation partners ASA Plus Destination ahead of games - Adom TV (11-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w7gAY9nA6ew?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sulley Muntari Ghana Premier League champions, Hearts of Oak, have begun talks to hand Sulley Muntari a long term deal following his impressive early showings in the league, Joy Sports understands. Muntari was announced as a new Hearts player on February 1, 2022, and prior to his unveiling, the former Black Stars player had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":979614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[807,216,5205,3826,3727,3828],"class_list":["post-1018483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-deal","tag-hearts","tag-longterm","tag-muntari","tag-negotiations","tag-sulley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}