{"id":2568,"date":"2020-11-06T23:39:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2020-11-06T23:39:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:39:53","slug":"chairman-wontumi-vows-to-buy-paul-pogba-for-asante-kotoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/06\/chairman-wontumi-vows-to-buy-paul-pogba-for-asante-kotoko\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chairman Wontumi\u2019 vows to buy Paul Pogba for Asante Kotoko!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has urged Kumasi Asante Kotoko to bid for Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba and has vowed to pay the Red Devils\u2019 asking price for the French world cup winner.<\/p>\n<p>Pogba\u2019s future at Old Trafford has resurfaced with reports that United have lowered their asking price for the former Juventus midfielder to \u00a353 million with Real Madrid among others reportedly showing interest.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Wontumi TV Friday morning, the man popularly known as \u201cChairman Wontumi\u201d praised Asante Kotoko\u2019s CEO Nana Yaw Amponsah before proceeding to make the outrageous offer to the Porcupine Warriors\u2019 family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in Nana Yaw Amponsah. I think that guy has vision to help Ghana\u2019s football so I have asked them to go to Manchester United to trigger the release clause of Paul Pogba\u2026 You know day in day out his price comes down and now I learnt it\u2019s around \u00a353M. I will pay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to chairman Wontumi, buying Pogba will prove to the world Kotoko is bigger than Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to bring him to Kumasi Asante Kotoko SC and tell the world that there\u2019s a club in Ghana bigger than Manchester United.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a business aspect that you haven\u2019t seen but I will make returns through the sale of his jerseys and others so paying his weekly wages would not be a problem at all\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Asante Kotoko have signed 9 players ahead of the start of the new Ghana Premier League season where they are tipped as one of the favorites to win.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2569\" src=\"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"215\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2570\" src=\"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/download-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, has urged Kumasi Asante Kotoko to bid for Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba and has vowed to pay the Red Devils\u2019 asking price for the French world cup winner. Pogba\u2019s future at Old Trafford has resurfaced with reports that United have lowered their asking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[326,211,210,91,282,327],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-kotoko","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-npp","tag-pogba","tag-wontumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}