{"id":10595,"date":"2021-07-14T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=125955"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:38:34","slug":"as-roma-has-signed-wolves-goalkeeper-rui-patricio-for-e11-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/as-roma-has-signed-wolves-goalkeeper-rui-patricio-for-e11-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"AS Roma has signed Portuguese goalkeeper Rui Patricio from Wolverhampton Wanderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AS Roma announced the signing of goalkeeper Rui Patricio from Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers on Tuesday, with the former paying an initial fee of \u20ac11.5 million ($13.54 million).<\/p>\n<p>The Portugal international has been Wolves\u2019 mainstay in goal for the past three years, missing only two Premier League games while keeping 37 clean sheets. He was also a member of Portugal\u2019s Euro 2020 squad, which was eliminated in the last-16.<\/p>\n<p>Roma has hired former Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho for the upcoming season after finishing seventh in Serie A last season. Patricio stated that he is excited to play for the Portuguese manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Jose Mourinho, we are talking about one of the greatest coaches in the world and I am excited to start working with him and doing everything I can to help the team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9\ud83e\udd1d\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ASRoma?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ASRoma<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IU22lXkX1m\">pic.twitter.com\/IU22lXkX1m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AS Roma English (@ASRomaEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASRomaEN\/status\/1415059868369702918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wolves finished 13th last season after two seventh-place finishes, with manager Nuno Espirito Santo leaving at the end of the season to join Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Patricio) has been part of the best years of the club\u2019s recent history\u2026 coming to us when we were newly promoted and helping the club to achieve two seventh-place finishes,\u201d Wolves technical director Scott Sellars said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portugal international has been Wolves\u2019 mainstay in goal for the past three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":33072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1869,389,998],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-as-roma","tag-sports","tag-wolves"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}