{"id":14423,"date":"2019-03-01T04:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=14423"},"modified":"2019-03-01T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:38:13","slug":"gor-mahia-said-to-be-after-rayon-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-said-to-be-after-rayon-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia said to be after Rayon duo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/vs-rayon-18.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A report in the Daily Nation suggests that Gor Mahia are to pursue Eric Rutanga and Michael Sarpong who currently play for Rayon Sports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia are keen on luring Rayon Sport duo Eric Rutanga and Sarpong Micheal in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Kenyan champions must be prepared to spend big as these two players will not come cheaply, reports Rwanda Foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K\u2019Ogalo have recently seen their resources stretched because of a \ncombination of departures and a busy schedule, which has left the first \nteam having to compete in either a local or continental assignment at \nleast twice every week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse, the Kenyan side recently released two dependable players in \nthe frame of Karim Niziyigimana and Ephrem Guikhan and it makes sense \nthat these two players would come in as replacements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rutanga is a quality left-back who was instrumental when the Rwandan \nclub defeated Gor Mahia 2-1 in a Caf Confederation Cup match in Nairobi \nin 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should he come in, he will either compete with Shafique Batambuze for\n the left back position or moved ahead to play in left midfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarpong is, meanwhile, expected to reinforce coach Hassan Oktay \nmidfield having displayed a rich vein of form in the Rwandan league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two players are expected to cost Sh5.5 million, according to well-placed sources.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-said-to-be-after-rayon-duo\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report in the Daily Nation suggests that Gor Mahia are to pursue Eric Rutanga and Michael Sarpong who currently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14425,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions\/14425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}