{"id":1247490,"date":"2022-11-09T16:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/manchester-united-join-race-for-black-stars-winger\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:55:27","slug":"manchester-united-join-race-for-black-stars-winger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/09\/manchester-united-join-race-for-black-stars-winger\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United Join Race For Black Stars Winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bdf64cf12fa6480d9ad38e8ba56bbe08\" alt=\"Abdul Fatawu Issahaku: Teenage Ghana winger joins Sporting Lisbon - BBC  Sport\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">English Premier League side, Manchester United have reportedly joined the race to sign Black Stars winger Fatawu Issahaku.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">The winger currently plays for Sporting Club Lisbon and has been rated as one of the stars of the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">According to sources, the Ghanaian wonderkid is seen as a version of the Crisitiano Ronaldo that the club signed from Sporting Lisbon in the 2003\/2004 season. However, the club will not proceed with any move until after the world cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/7e5df8cfbce642a09fb41300788082f7\" alt=\"Fatawu Issahaku's Bayer Leverkusen move called off after agent's dubious  behaviour - Prime News Ghana\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Football pundits have also showered praises on the player, comparing him to the sort of impact that Bruno Fernandes made in his first season at the Manchester club. In a discussion on radio, GIVEMESPORT pundit Aarons said \u201cI think Manchester United, eventually, in that Bruno Fernandes sort of role just behind the striker, scoring lots of goals. He had an amazing record in the Ghanaian league. He was playing men\u2019s football very young and scored loads of goals in that number 10 position. He is a real name to watch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">Fatawu Issahaku is expected to be in the final 26-man squad for the Ghana Black Stars ahead of the World Cup in Qatar this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/8cde9fc8f5974b89981707a8bd857b2b\" alt=\"Fatawu Issahaku misses decisive kick as Sporting Lisbon lose in preseason  [VIDEO] \u2013 Citi Sports Online\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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According to sources, the Ghanaian wonderkid is seen as a version of the Crisitiano Ronaldo that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,1302,1762,5715,95,2822,802],"class_list":{"0":"post-1247490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-black","9":"tag-join","10":"tag-manchester","11":"tag-race","12":"tag-stars","13":"tag-united","14":"tag-winger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247490","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=1247490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}