{"id":9355,"date":"2019-12-20T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=9355"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T14:21:48","slug":"liverpool-to-sign-red-bull-salzburg-winger-takumi-minamino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/liverpool-to-sign-red-bull-salzburg-winger-takumi-minamino\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool To Sign Red Bull Salzburg Winger Takumi Minamino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Liverpool have confirmed they will sign winger Takumi Minamino when the transfer window opens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He has signed a 4 and a half year contract which will expire in the summer of 2024. Minamino has scored nine goals and provided 11 assists in 22 appearances for the Austrian side this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been a dream, my dream to become a Liverpool player,&#8221; Minamino said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/onesport\/cps\/480\/cpsprodpb\/0D7B\/production\/_110115430_minamino_getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takumi Minamino against Liverpool in this season&#8217;s Champions League.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;To play in the Premier League was one of my targets,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this is the top-class league in the world. I was thinking if my career as a footballer progressed smoothly, someday I would be able to play in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I never thought I would be able to play in this team and I&#8217;m really happy about it. I&#8217;m looking forward to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As shown in the picture above, Minamino played in both of his side&#8217;s Champions League games against the Liverpool this season, scoring in the 4-3 defeat at Anfield in October.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp shared some comments with press regarding the signing, saying &#8220;He is brave with the ball but also brave without the ball; a proper team player. He makes the best of himself for the benefit of others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His Champions League experience is a big bonus and coming from the club and organisation he does, we know he&#8217;ll be well coached, used to an elite environment and had all the right experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool haven&#8217;t made that many signings this season, and in my personal opinion it&#8217;s not a bad thing; don&#8217;t try and fix what isn&#8217;t broken. Liverpool are currently 10 points clear, currently undefeated with only 1 draw this season in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool have confirmed they will sign winger Takumi Minamino when the transfer window opens. He has signed a 4 and a half year contract which will expire in the summer of 2024. Minamino has scored nine goals and provided 11 assists in 22 appearances for the Austrian side this season. &#8220;It has been a dream,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":9357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,769,1],"tags":[971,909,846,1421,1084,5,2057,2356,2056,2058,1424,2047,949,1075,91,885],"class_list":["post-9355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool-fc","category-premier-league","category-uncategorized","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-news","tag-liverpool","tag-new-signing-news","tag-pl-news","tag-signing","tag-signing-news","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-transfer","tag-transfer-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}