{"id":9429,"date":"2007-07-11T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/07\/11\/chopra-back-in-premierhsip\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T12:07:35","slug":"chopra-back-in-premierhsip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/11\/chopra-back-in-premierhsip\/","title":{"rendered":"Chopra back in Premierhsip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Sunderland swoop in \u00a35m deal<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"254\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/MichaelChopra%27Sunderland%27.jpg\"\/>MICHAEL Chopra is on his way back to the Premierhsip after reportedly signing for newly-promoted Sunderland.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 23-year-old scored 22 goals for Cardiff City in the Championship last season and will return back to the north-east following an earlier spell with Sunderland rivals Newcastle City. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sunderland boss Roy Keane turned his attention to Chopra after missing out on Preston North End and England striker David Nugent who is set to join Portsmouth in a \u00a36m deal. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Cardiff City boss Dave Jones said the club could not stand in the way of Chopra\u2019s desire to play in the Premiership. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He told the South Wales Echo: \u201cI am sorry to see him go, everybody in the camp is. But there is a price for every player. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe money could go on to make us stronger. This is good business for us and after all, we are in a business. And for Michael it means Premiership football. We cannot stop him. We wish him all the best with Sunderland.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Chopra signed for Cardiff from Newcastle in a \u00a3500,000 deal last year and was also the first British Asian footballer to play in the Premierhsip when he made his debut for Newcastle United in May 2003. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunderland swoop in \u00a35m deal MICHAEL Chopra is on his way back to the Premierhsip after reportedly signing for newly-promoted Sunderland. &#13; The 23-year-old scored 22 goals for Cardiff City in the Championship last season and will return back to the north-east following an earlier spell with Sunderland rivals Newcastle City. &#13; Sunderland boss Roy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}