{"id":12764,"date":"2025-04-04T19:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mohamed-salah-how-ex-liverpool-boss-jurgen-klopp-almost-didnt-sign-winger\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T19:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:08:02","slug":"mohamed-salah-how-ex-liverpool-boss-jurgen-klopp-almost-didnt-sign-winger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mohamed-salah-how-ex-liverpool-boss-jurgen-klopp-almost-didnt-sign-winger\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah: How ex-Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp almost didn&#8217;t sign winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool&#8217;s former director of research Ian Graham reveals how Jurgen Klopp had to be persuaded to sign Egypt forward Mohamed Salah in 2017 rather than young Bundesliga star Julian Brandt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/iplayer\/episode\/m0029tgn\/how-to-win-the-champions-league-series-1-2-liverpool-2019\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Watch now on BBC iPlayer:<\/b> How to Win the Champions League: Liverpool 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/cp3ye1p9kd7o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool&#8217;s former director of research Ian Graham reveals how Jurgen Klopp had to be persuaded to sign Egypt forward Mohamed Salah in 2017 rather than young Bundesliga star Julian Brandt. Watch now on BBC iPlayer: How to Win the Champions League: Liverpool 2019 Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12766,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764\/revisions\/12766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}