{"id":360646,"date":"2017-07-10T23:13:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/manchester-united-confirm-romelu-lukaku-signing\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T23:13:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:13:44","slug":"manchester-united-confirm-romelu-lukaku-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/manchester-united-confirm-romelu-lukaku-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United confirm Romelu Lukaku signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.eurosport.com\/2017\/07\/10\/2124550-44448419-640-360.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">The 24-year-old has signed a five-year deal with the option for a further year, and will join the squad for pre-season training in LA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph-hyperlink\">&#8220;I would like to start by thanking Everton and the fans for the last four wonderful seasons, I have made some special friends and we have shared some amazing moments,\u201d the Belgian international told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/News-And-Features\/Football-News\/2017\/Jul\/club-statement-manchester-united-confirm-romelu-lukaku-has-joined-the-club-from-everton.aspx?utm_campaign=ManUtd&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_source=twitter\">club\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">\u201cHowever, when Manchester United and Jose <a class=\"autolink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosport.com\/football\/jose-mourinho_prs25621\/person.shtml\">Mourinho<\/a> come knocking at the door it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">\u201cYou could see the fight, determination and the spirit in this team during the Europa League final and I want to become a part of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">\u201cI cannot wait to run out at Old Trafford in front of 75,000 fans but before that pre-season is where the hard work starts and I am looking forward to that first training session.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">&#8220;Romelu is a natural fit for Manchester United. He is a big personality and a big player,&#8221; United manager Jose Mourinho said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">&#8220;It is only natural that he wants to develop his career at the biggest club. He will be a great addition to the group and I know they will make him very welcome. I am really looking forward to working with him again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">Lukaku netted 25 Premier League goals last season for Everton, a tally only bettered by Tottenham&#8217;s <a class=\"autolink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosport.com\/football\/harry-kane_prs222117\/person.shtml\">Harry Kane<\/a>, who scored 29 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">The striker, who has also scored 20 goals for Belgium, rejected a new contract at Everton in March and will reunite with United manager Jose Mourinho, under whom he served at <a class=\"autolink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosport.com\/football\/teams\/chelsea\/teamcenter.shtml\">Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 24-year-old has signed a five-year deal with the option for a further year, and will join the squad for pre-season training in LA. &#8220;I would like to start by thanking Everton and the fans for the last four wonderful seasons, I have made some special friends and we have shared some amazing moments,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":360647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[71,59,70],"class_list":["post-360646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-eurosport","tag-media","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}