{"id":19871,"date":"2012-06-19T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T09:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19871"},"modified":"2012-06-19T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T09:34:16","slug":"manchester-city-ready-to-pay-29-million-for-fernando-llorente19871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/manchester-city-ready-to-pay-29-million-for-fernando-llorente19871\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Ready to Pay \u00a329 million For Fernando Llorente"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fernando-llorente-e1340098311492.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fernando-llorente-e1340098311492.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Manchester City continues to look at more attacking talent to boost their chances of repeating as English Premier League champion\u2019s next season.<\/h1>\n<p>Manchester City have been warned it will cost them up to \u00a330million to land Athletic Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente this summer.The Spain international is on a list of possible targets if Roberto Mancini fails to bag Arsenal\u2019s Robin van Persie during the close season.<\/p>\n<p>The latest big name on their target list for the summer is Athletic Bilbao\u2019s Spanish giant, Fernando Llorente.\u00a0At 6\u20195\u201d Llorente is a daunting task player to defend in the air, but he is just as impressive with the ball at his feet which makes him extremely valuable.\u00a0Manchester City are on the verge of making a move for the player in which they are said to be offering \u00a329 million for the Spanish international.<\/p>\n<h2>Bilboa president Josu Urrutia said: \u201cHe is a key player and we would not accept less.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe supporters would not accept this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Llorente, who scored 24 goals last season, is refusing to talk about his future while he remains part of Vicente del Bosque\u2019s squad at the Euros.\u00a0City are preparing to shuffle their strikers this summer as they hunt buyers for Emmanuel Adebayor and Roque Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>They will also listen to offers for Bayern Munich target Edin Dzeko \u2014 but Carlos Tevez has indicated he would be happy to stay at the Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastland\u2019s club is set to go after the 27-year-old sensation.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City continues to look at more attacking talent to boost their chances of repeating as English Premier League champion\u2019s next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[8773,25360,25361,25364,25365,25366,25363,4313,25362,25356,12191,25357,24001],"class_list":["post-19871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-athletic-bilbao","tag-athletic-bilbao-fernando-llorente","tag-athletic-bilbao-manchester-city","tag-fernando-llorente-transfer","tag-fernando-llorente-transfer-manchester-city","tag-llorente-premier-league","tag-llorente-transfer-manchester-city","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-city-athletic-bilbao","tag-manchester-city-fernando-llorente","tag-manchester-city-transfer","tag-manchester-city-transfer-fernando-llorente","tag-premier-league-champions-manchester-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}