{"id":18200,"date":"2025-08-09T06:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wilfred-ndidi-leicester-city-midfielder-departs-for-besiktas\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:39:11","slug":"wilfred-ndidi-leicester-city-midfielder-departs-for-besiktas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wilfred-ndidi-leicester-city-midfielder-departs-for-besiktas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilfred Ndidi: Leicester City midfielder departs for Besiktas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has left the Foxes for Turkish club Besiktas on a permanent deal.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old Nigeria international departs after eight and a half years at the King Power Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ndidi won the FA Cup, Community Shield and gained promotion to the Premier League in 2023-24 with the Foxes before the club suffered a second relegation in three years last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made 303 appearances for Leicester in all competitions, scoring 18 goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cewyde5wpl7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi has left the Foxes for Turkish club Besiktas on a permanent deal. The 28-year-old Nigeria international departs after eight and a half years at the King Power Stadium. Ndidi won the FA Cup, Community Shield and gained promotion to the Premier League in 2023-24 with the Foxes before the club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18200","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\/18200","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=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18202,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions\/18202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}