{"id":17764,"date":"2026-07-15T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17764"},"modified":"2026-07-15T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:56:06","slug":"who-should-be-man-utds-3rd-midfield-signing-we-take-a-look-at-the-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17764","title":{"rendered":"Who Should Be Man Utd&#8217;s 3rd Midfield Signing? We Take A Look At The Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><span class=\"c-post-pagination c-post-pagination--next\">Next page \u00bb<\/span><\/nav>\n<p><strong>Man Utd are looking to recruit a third midfielder after the additions of Youri Tielemans and Andrey Santos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist Fabrizio Romano says the Red Devils have already been in contact with the agents of <strong>Manu Kone<\/strong>while they also appreciate Real Madrid\u2019s Eduardo Camavinga.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Director of Football Jason Wilcox wants to add a runner in midfield who has the physicality and energy to cover every blade of grass.<\/p>\n<p>So, which player would be best suited to the task? Press the next page as we compare them based on their league stats from last season.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><span class=\"c-post-pagination c-post-pagination--next\">Next page \u00bb<\/span><\/nav>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next page \u00bb Man Utd are looking to recruit a third midfielder after the additions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}