{"id":2680,"date":"2023-10-19T16:02:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/2680\/al-ettifaq-keen-to-offload\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T16:02:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:02:59","slug":"al-ettifaq-keen-to-offload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"Al Ettifaq keen to offload players to sign Lingard &#8211; source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ettifaq keen to offload players to sign Lingard &#8211; source\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Rob Dawson, correspondent<span class=\"timestamp \">October 19, 2023, 11:15 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Al Ettifaq are ready to reduce the number of foreign players in their squad in order to sign Jesse Lingard, a source has told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Lingard trains with the Saudi <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/pro\/\"   title=\"Pro\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Pro<\/a> League side, managed by Steven Gerrard, but is yet to sign a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saudi league rules only allow eight foreign players to be included in a squad for a match and Al-Ettifaq, which has 10, is looking for ways to add at least one.<\/p>\n<p>A source told ESPN that Swedish international Robin Quaison and Brazilian winger Vitinho are two possible departures.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Jesse Lingard has been without a club since leaving Nottingham Forest at the end of last season. <cite>Getty<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gerrard is responsible for recruiting foreign players and has already signed Jordan Henderson, Georginio Wijnaldum and Demarai Gray since taking over as boss in July.<\/p>\n<p>Gerrard wants to have Lingard in his team.  The 30-year-old former Manchester <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> striker played and scored in a friendly against Al Khaldiya earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Lingard, who has also attracted interest from La Liga side Osasuna, has been without a club since leaving Nottingham Forest at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>He also spent time training with West Ham, where he had a successful 2021 loan but permanent move to Al-Ettifaq, seventh in the Saudi Pro League table, six points behind leaders Al-Hilal , now seems the most likely.  .<\/p>\n<p>Lingard scored 35 goals in 232 appearances for United before leaving Old Trafford in 2022. He was capped 32 times by England and was part of Gareth Southgate&#8217;s side that reached the World Cup semi-finals in Russia in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Ettifaq keen to offload players to sign Lingard &#8211; source\u060c Rob Dawson, correspondentOctober 19, 2023, 11:15 a.m. Al Ettifaq are ready to reduce the number of foreign players in their squad in order to sign Jesse Lingard, a source has told ESPN. Lingard trains with the Saudi Pro League side, managed by Steven Gerrard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2773,2433,2776,2774,23,2775,811],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-ettifaq","tag-keen","tag-lingard","tag-offload","tag-players","tag-sign","tag-source"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}