{"id":21890,"date":"2024-09-01T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T10:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chris-smalling-set-to-join-saudi-pro-league-side-al-fayha\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T10:22:48","slug":"chris-smalling-set-to-join-saudi-pro-league-side-al-fayha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/chris-smalling-set-to-join-saudi-pro-league-side-al-fayha\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Smalling set to join Saudi Pro League side Al-Fayha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former England and Manchester United defender Chris Smalling is on the brink of joining Saudi Pro League club Al-Fayha.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smalling is poised to be a substitute for Roma on Sunday evening when his current club play against Juventus in Serie A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old will then have a medical with Al-Fayha and, providing there are no issues, he will complete his move before the Pro League&#8217;s transfer deadline of midnight local time on Monday (22:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will end Smalling&#8217;s five-year spell at Roma, who he initially joined from United on loan in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made more than 150 appearances for the Italian club but played just 12 games last season because of injury and is yet to feature this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was part of the side that won the 2022 Europa Conference League final by beating Feyenoord and also played in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/65770780\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Europa League final<\/a> defeat against Sevilla the following season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smalling was part of two Premier League title-winning squads at Old Trafford under Sir Alex Ferguson and won 31 England caps, his last coming in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp8n67pyz70o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former England and Manchester United defender Chris Smalling is on the brink of joining Saudi Pro League club Al-Fayha. Smalling is poised to be a substitute for Roma on Sunday evening when his current club play against Juventus in Serie A. The 34-year-old will then have a medical with Al-Fayha and, providing there are no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21892,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions\/21892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}