{"id":12125,"date":"2022-06-09T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/one-that-got-away-how-close-liverpool-came-to-buying-brazil-s-rodrygo-for-3m"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:50:36","slug":"one-that-got-away-how-close-liverpool-came-to-buying-brazil-s-rodrygo-for-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/one-that-got-away-how-close-liverpool-came-to-buying-brazil-s-rodrygo-for-3m","title":{"rendered":"One that got away: how close Liverpool came to buying Brazil&#8217;s Rodrygo for &#8364;3m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid&#8217;s Rodrygo kisses the European Cup after last month&#8217;s win over Liverpool in the final in Paris.Liverpool were close to signing Rodrygo for &#8364;3m in 2017, a year before Real Madrid struck a deal to sign the Brazil forward for 15 times that amount, the Guardian has been told.The former Brazil and Manchester City midfielder Elano has said he persuaded the then Santos president, Modesto Roma J&#250;nior, to abandon plans to sell Rodrygo to Liverpool. Elano was working as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool were close to signing Rodrygo for &#8364;3m in 2017, a year before Real Madrid struck a deal to sign the Brazil forward for 15 times that amount, the Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[142,139,138,58,102],"class_list":["post-12125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-champions-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}