{"id":74043,"date":"2025-08-24T17:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74043"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:53:59","slug":"medical-setback-halts-bonifaces-move-to-ac-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/24\/medical-setback-halts-bonifaces-move-to-ac-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Setback Halts Boniface\u2019s Move to AC Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian striker Victor Boniface\u2019s much-anticipated transfer to AC Milan has collapsed after he failed to pass the club\u2019s medical examination.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, initially agreed at \u20ac5 million loan fee with a \u20ac24 million buy option, was scrapped when Milan\u2019s medical team raised concerns about Boniface\u2019s injury record.<\/p>\n<p>Findings revealed lingering issues tied to his history of two anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) operations, coupled with recurring muscle injuries that have hindered his consistency in recent seasons.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Boniface has returned to his current club, Bayer Leverkusen, while AC Milan shifts its focus to alternative striking options, including Manchester United\u2019s Rasmus Hojlund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Nigerian striker Victor Boniface\u2019s much-anticipated transfer to AC Milan has collapsed after he failed to pass the club\u2019s medical examination. The deal, initially agreed at \u20ac5 million loan fee with a \u20ac24 million buy option, was scrapped when Milan\u2019s medical team raised concerns about Boniface\u2019s injury record. Findings revealed lingering issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74045,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74043\/revisions\/74045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}