{"id":6896,"date":"2017-08-31T09:41:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2017-08-31T09:41:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:41:56","slug":"liverpool-sign-alex-oxlade-chamberlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2017\/08\/31\/liverpool-sign-alex-oxlade-chamberlain\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liverpool<\/a> sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal<\/a> today. After rejecting a contract from Arsenal earlier this week, &#8220;The Ox&#8221; has been allowed to make the move to Anfield. The fee is \u00a340 million after add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>With the English international entering the last year of his contract, the Reds beat out Chelsea in the race for his signature. The player reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/08\/29\/alex-oxlade-chamberlain-chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected a move to Chelsea<\/a>, favouring his childhood club for the opportunity to play centrally\u2014something Arsene Wenger wouldn&#8217;t afford him. Oxlade-Chamberlain is in the England squad this week, and joins up after the break.<\/p>\n<h2>Liverpool Sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain<\/h2>\n<p>Oxlade-Chamberlain joined Arsenal in the summer of 2011, for a fee of\u00a0\u00a315\u00a0million. A career in North London amounted to 9 goals in 130 appearances. He has been deployed as a winger, a central midfielder, and as a wingback. He has been Arsene Wenger&#8217;s ultimate utility man. With Chelsea missing out on rumoured signing Alex Sandro, it is expected the Englishman will play almost exclusively at wingback.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain after a mad start to the window, but otherwise quiet last month. However the addition of the English international fills the thinnest position in the squad.<\/p>\n<h2>The Ox Going Forward<\/h2>\n<p>It is unclear where he will slide in immediately, but given the quality of his final ball there is room for him to make the spot his own. Oxlade-Chamberlain is away with the England squad for now, but will be included in the matchday squad the following weekend. With the window winding down, this might be Liverpool&#8217;s last deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from Arsenal today. After rejecting a contract from Arsenal earlier this week, &#8220;The Ox&#8221; has been allowed to make the move to Anfield. The fee is \u00a340 million after add-ons. With the English international entering the last year of his contract, the Reds beat out Chelsea in the race for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":7069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8,11,3],"tags":[788,3190,1407],"class_list":["post-6896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-arsenal","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","tag-alex-oxlade-chamberlain","tag-arsenal-transfer-news","tag-chelsea-transfers"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}