{"id":1129,"date":"2007-03-08T20:56:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T12:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2009-09-09T22:48:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:48:07","slug":"1125-of-arsenal-wants-babel-of-ajax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"[1125] Of Arsenal wants Babel of Ajax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/ajax.gif?w=580\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What started as a rumor has become the truth. Several sources have reported that Arsenal is looking to recruit yet another wonder boy from Ajax, winger Ryan Babel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger plans to make a 6 million-pound ($11.6 million) bid for Ajax winger Ryan Babel at the end of the season, the Daily Mirror reported.<\/p>\n<p>Babel, a 20-year-old Dutch international, is Wenger&#8217;s No. 1 target to replace Sweden&#8217;s Freddie Ljungberg, who is likely to leave in the summer, the paper said. Babel can play on the wing or as a center-forward and has been compared to Gunners skipper Thierry Henry by Netherlands coach Marco van Basten.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601086&amp;sid=aqrLzDW8cQ4c&amp;refer=latin_america\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arsenal Wants Dutch Winger<\/em><\/a>, Bloomberg, March 6 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am so glad that Babel has just signed a contract with Ajax that will last till 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a rumor has become the truth. Several sources have reported that Arsenal is looking to recruit yet another wonder boy from Ajax, winger Ryan Babel: Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger plans to make a 6 million-pound ($11.6 million) bid for Ajax winger Ryan Babel at the end of the season, the Daily Mirror [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51,917,918],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-ajax-amsterdam","tag-arsenal","tag-ryan-babel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5164,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/5164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}