{"id":4250,"date":"2019-02-09T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T18:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2019-02-09T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T18:01:20","slug":"official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city","title":{"rendered":"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>League of Ireland Premier Division club\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shamrockrovers.ie\/2019\/02\/08\/gavin-bazunu-completes-move-to-man-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shamrock Rovers have confirmed via their official website<\/a>\u00a0that Nigeria-eligible goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has completed his transfer to Manchester City.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Citizens indicated as much at the close of the January transfer window as the goalkeeper has been registered for the second half of the Premier League as an U21 player.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shamrock Rovers Sporting Director Stephen McPhail has explained why Bazunu&#8217;s transfer to Man City was brought forward as he was initially set to join the Premier League champions in the summer.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said : &#8221;Gavin has completed the move earlier than we originally expected and we wish Gavin all the very best in his career development at City.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221;Whilst we originally planned for Gavin to stay at Rovers until July and see out his education to complete his Leaving Certificate at our education partner Ashfield College, arrangements have been made to accommodate Gavin doing his studies and moving to Manchester.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8221;Working with Gavin, his family and the other parties involved we are happy that this is the best scenario for Gavin and for the football club.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League of Ireland Premier Division club\u00a0Shamrock Rovers have confirmed via their official website\u00a0that Nigeria-eligible goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has completed his transfer to Manchester City. The Citizens indicated as much at the close of the January transfer window as the goalkeeper has been registered for the second half of the Premier League as an U21 player. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":4253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,122],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"League of Ireland Premier Division club\u00a0Shamrock Rovers have confirmed via their official website\u00a0that Nigeria-eligible goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has completed his transfer to Manchester City. The Citizens indicated as much at the close of the January transfer window as the goalkeeper has been registered for the second half of the Premier League as an U21 player. [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-09T18:01:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"161\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-09T18:01:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city\"},\"wordCount\":192,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football\",\"Sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city\",\"name\":\"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-09T18:01:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg\",\"width\":280,\"height\":161},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\",\"name\":\"alico\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City - Nigeria","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City","og_description":"League of Ireland Premier Division club\u00a0Shamrock Rovers have confirmed via their official website\u00a0that Nigeria-eligible goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has completed his transfer to Manchester City. The Citizens indicated as much at the close of the January transfer window as the goalkeeper has been registered for the second half of the Premier League as an U21 player. [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2019-02-09T18:01:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":280,"height":161,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"alico","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"alico","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city"},"author":{"name":"alico","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"headline":"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City","datePublished":"2019-02-09T18:01:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city"},"wordCount":192,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg","keywords":["Football","Sports"],"articleSection":["all news","Sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city","name":"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg","datePublished":"2019-02-09T18:01:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/10780Bazunu.jpg","width":280,"height":161},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/official-talented-nigeria-eligible-goalkeeper-completes-transfer-to-manchester-city#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Official : Talented Nigeria-Eligible Goalkeeper Completes Transfer To Manchester City"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7","name":"alico","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}