{"id":97578,"date":"2019-10-18T16:58:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=97578"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:58:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:58:16","slug":"joel-matip-signs-new-liverpool-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/sport\/joel-matip-signs-new-liverpool-contract\/2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Matip Signs New Liverpool Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"styles__articleContainer-eevbg2-1 kRATvj\">\n<section class=\"styles__articleContentWrapper-eevbg2-8 fIfakf\">Liverpool defender Joel Matip has signed a new long-term contract, the club has confirmed.<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section class=\"styles__articleContentWrapper-eevbg2-8 fIfakf\">Centre-back Matip \u2013 whose previous contract was set to expire at the end of the season \u2013 finalised terms at the Reds&#8217; Melwood training base on Friday 18th October 2019.<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section class=\"styles__articleContentWrapper-eevbg2-8 fIfakf\">The 28-year-old&#8217;s new deal will reportedly keep him at Anfield until 2024.&#8221;It&#8217;s a great feeling to be a longer part of the club. It&#8217;s really just a great feeling,&#8221; Matip told Liverpool&#8217;s website.<\/section>\n<section class=\"styles__articleContentWrapper-eevbg2-8 fIfakf\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From outside, you know Liverpool is such a big club \u2013 but when you are inside, then you really get a feeling for how big the club is. In all the countries, the supporters are everywhere. It&#8217;s a massive and big club that I think every player would want to play for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a young and talented team and I think every one of us is hungry. Now we&#8217;ve seen how it is to win something and we want to have that feeling again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of things still to achieve. You never know how it will end, you just have to work hard and do the best you can do. Then we will see.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an honour to be a part of the club. It makes me happy that people think I&#8217;ve done a good job and they want to keep me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matip signed from Schalke in 2016 and has gone on to make 107 appearances for Liverpool, scoring five goals.<\/p>\n<p>The Cameroon international established himself as a key part of the defence under Jurgen Klopp in the latter part of last season and assisted Divock Origi&#8217;s goal to seal a 2-0 win over Tottenham in the Champions League final in June.<\/p>\n<p>Matip started six of Liverpool&#8217;s opening eight Premier League games this term and is expected to start in Sunday&#8217;s clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford, despite having only recently recovered from a knock.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool defender Joel Matip has signed a new long-term contract, the club has confirmed. Centre-back Matip \u2013 whose previous contract was set to expire at the end of the season \u2013 finalised terms at the Reds&#8217; Melwood training base on Friday 18th October 2019. The 28-year-old&#8217;s new deal will reportedly keep him at Anfield until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}