{"id":60188,"date":"2025-01-30T07:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60188"},"modified":"2025-01-30T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:54:16","slug":"bonifaces-move-to-al-nassr-falls-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/30\/bonifaces-move-to-al-nassr-falls-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Boniface\u2019s Move to Al Nassr Falls Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victor Boniface will remain at Bayer Leverkusen after his proposed move to Saudi club Al Nassr collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>German journalist Florian Plettenberg confirmed the development on Wednesday night, revealing that despite verbal agreements and a completed medical, Al Nassr pulled out of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The club opted instead to sign Aston Villa\u2019s Jhon Dur\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen boss Simon Rolfes and coach Xabi Alonso also confirmed Boniface\u2019s stay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will train again tomorrow. I believe he is staying with us,\u201d Alonso said after Leverkusen\u2019s 2-0 Champions League win over Sparta Prague.<\/p>\n<p>Boniface, sidelined since November due to injury, could feature against Hoffenheim on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Victor Boniface will remain at Bayer Leverkusen after his proposed move to Saudi club Al Nassr collapsed. German journalist Florian Plettenberg confirmed the development on Wednesday night, revealing that despite verbal agreements and a completed medical, Al Nassr pulled out of the deal. The club opted instead to sign Aston Villa\u2019s Jhon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60190,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60188\/revisions\/60190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}