{"id":16764,"date":"2025-12-22T09:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=673900"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:09:59","slug":"as-roma-step-up-talks-for-manchester-united-forward-joshua-zirkzee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/as-roma-step-up-talks-for-manchester-united-forward-joshua-zirkzee\/","title":{"rendered":"AS Roma step up talks for Manchester United forward Joshua Zirkzee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AS Roma have intensified their efforts to sign Manchester United forward Joshua Zirkzee, with talks over personal terms now progressing positively ahead of the January transfer window. The Serie A side have identified the Dutch striker as their top attacking target and are keen to move swiftly to secure his signature as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Roma\u2019s negotiations with Zirkzee\u2019s camp have advanced in recent days, indicating the player\u2019s openness to a potential move to Italy. However, the deal is not yet complete, as it still hinges on Manchester United\u2019s final decision regarding the 23-year-old\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Zirkzee, who joined United amid high expectations, has endured a mixed spell at Old Trafford. While he has shown flashes of quality with his physical presence, technical ability, and link-up play, consistency has been hard to come by. United\u2019s situation has been further complicated by a congested fixture list and a depleted squad, with several players currently sidelined due to injuries and others away on AFCON duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS Roma have intensified their efforts to sign Manchester United forward Joshua Zirkzee, with talks over personal terms now progressing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1869,1823,3796,4162,3862,249,2407,3793,3966],"class_list":["post-16764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-as-roma","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-january-transfer-window","tag-joshua-zirkzee","tag-manchester-united","tag-roma","tag-ruben-amorim","tag-zirkzee"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764","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\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}