{"id":854,"date":"2018-04-20T13:17:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=854"},"modified":"2018-04-20T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T09:17:37","slug":"arsene-wenger-to-step-down-as-arsenal-manager-at-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/04\/20\/arsene-wenger-to-step-down-as-arsenal-manager-at-the-end-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsene Wenger to step down as Arsenal manager at the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arsenal\u2019s Arsene Wenger has announced that he is to leave Arsenal at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>He made the following\u00a0statement to the club&#8217;s website:\u00a0\u201cAfter careful consideration and following discussions with the club, I feel it is the right time for me to step down at the end of the season, I am grateful for having had the privilege to serve the club for so many memorable years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Arsenal made the surprise announcement on Friday morning. Wenger signed a fresh two-year contract extension last summer and while there was speculation he would leave halfway though that deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, few thought confirmation of that would arrive before the conclusion of the current campaign, especially with the Europa League semi-final against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal\u2019s Arsene Wenger has announced that he is to leave Arsenal at the end of the season. He made the following\u00a0statement to the club&#8217;s website:\u00a0\u201cAfter careful consideration and following discussions with the club, I feel it is the right time for me to step down at the end of the season, I am grateful for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}