{"id":1208499,"date":"2022-09-21T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/kudus-mohammed-opens-up-on-why-was-eager-to-quit-ajax-for\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T14:28:35","slug":"kudus-mohammed-opens-up-on-why-was-eager-to-quit-ajax-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/21\/kudus-mohammed-opens-up-on-why-was-eager-to-quit-ajax-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudus Mohammed opens up on why was eager to quit Ajax for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"472\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1663164142_576_Screenshot-2022-09-13-225729-696x472.png\"   alt=\"Mohammed Kudus celebrates against Liverpool\" title=\"Mohammed Kudus celebrates against Liverpool\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammed Kudus celebrates against Liverpool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana midfielder Mohammed Kudus has opened up on his failed move to English Premier League side Everton in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Ajax turned down an offer from the Premier League side to sign the 21-year-old this summer after a difficult start of the Eredivisie season.<\/p>\n<p>The former FC Nordsjaelland having broken into the team has been in a fine form, scoring six goals after five games.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Kudus set a new career-best record by scoring for the fifth consecutive game in Ajax\u2019s 2-1 defeat to AZ Alkmaar in the Eredivisie on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverton offered me a great opportunity and I wanted to try it,\u201d Kudus told\u00a0<strong>NOS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo footballer wants to sit on the bench and neither do I. Although I understood that not everyone can play all the time, Everton seemed like a good option at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was named in Ghana\u2019s squad for next week\u2019s international friendly against Brazil and Nicaragua as Black Stars prepare ahead for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.<\/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=\"0GRJSl_wLDI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unposted Nurses: Group demonstrates against government in Tamale - Adom TV News (20-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0GRJSl_wLDI?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>Mohammed Kudus celebrates against Liverpool Ghana midfielder Mohammed Kudus has opened up on his failed move to English Premier League side Everton in the summer transfer window. Ajax turned down an offer from the Premier League side to sign the 21-year-old this summer after a difficult start of the Eredivisie season. The former FC Nordsjaelland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6215,7081,349,17,1100,3412],"class_list":["post-1208499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ajax","tag-eager","tag-kudus","tag-mohammed","tag-opens","tag-quit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208499","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=1208499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}