{"id":54570,"date":"2017-10-05T08:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54570"},"modified":"2017-10-05T08:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:20:57","slug":"kaizer-chiefs-linked-to-silver-strikers-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/kaizer-chiefs-linked-to-silver-strikers-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaizer Chiefs linked to Silver Strikers defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S<\/strong>ilver Strikers\u2019 versatile defender, Yinusa Sheriff Olanrewaju, has emerged as the potential target for South African struggling giants, Kaizer Chiefs, in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian, who has been a star performer for Silver this season, signed a two-year deal with the club in February.<\/p>\n<p>South African leading soccer publication, <em>Soccer Laduma<\/em>, reported that Sherriff caught the eye of Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian is thought to have made his way onto Bobby Motaung\u2019s list of potential targets once the January transfer window opens up next year,\u201d reported <em>www.soccerladuma.co.za<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, Chiefs initially targeted Be Forward Wanderers defender Lucky Malata but eventually opted for Sherriff after his impressive performance.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Chairperson, Ralph Tseka, said the club had not received concrete offers for the Nigerian but said a Blantyre-based person informed him that an unnamed South African team showed interest in Sherriff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, no South African club has contacted us on Sherriff. The last time I heard [about the issue] was two months ago, but let them come with offers and we will see what to do,\u201d Tseka said without disclosing the identity of the club.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate interview Wednesday, Sherriff said Silver informed him that a South African team inquired about his availability in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team\u2019s chairperson met me last week and said there is a team in South Africa that wants me but [they] won\u2019t tell me the identity of the club until they do what they asked them to do,\u201d Sherriff said.<\/p>\n<p>Motaung visited the country last month.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his physical approach, good positioning and great leadership, Sheriff has, alongside Herbert Wayenkha, added stability to the defence of Silver.<\/p>\n<p>In his career, Sherriff has played for Sunshine FC in Nigeria in 2015 as well a club in Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Strikers\u2019 versatile defender, Yinusa Sheriff Olanrewaju, has emerged as the potential target for South African struggling giants, Kaizer Chiefs, in the January transfer window. The Nigerian, who has been a star performer for Silver this season, signed a two-year deal with the club in February. South African leading soccer publication, Soccer Laduma, reported that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54575,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570\/revisions\/54575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}