{"id":3456,"date":"2013-12-21T02:13:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T02:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2014-02-06T02:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T02:57:57","slug":"gor-mahia-open-talks-with-kiongera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-open-talks-with-kiongera\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia open talks with Kiongera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/kiongera-blue.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of the Nation<\/p>\n<p>After snapping up Zambian international midfielder Julius Situmbeko to a three year deal and capturing Ugandan international left back Godfrey Walusimbi, Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia are set to make Paul Kiongera\u2019s deal a permanent one.<\/p>\n<p>The highly rated Kiongera has been at Gor on a season long loan from KCB, but talks have begun in earnest to tying down with a long term contract.<\/p>\n<p>Club Secretary General George Bwana told <i>Sporton!<\/i> that the club has opened talks with both Kiongera and his parent club KCB.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want him on board on a long term. Already talks are in progress and we hope to seal a deal soon,\u201d Bwana said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are issues he raised with the technical bench but we hope to arrive at an amicable solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gifted forward has, however, had a lukewarm first ten months at K\u2019Ogalo. Although initially expected to command a regular starting role behind the main striker at the club, Kiongera\u2019s development was hampered by a knee injury early in the season which saw him sidelined for three months.<\/p>\n<p>But even after making a return from the treatment room, earning a starting role proved a herculean task.<\/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-open-talks-with-kiongera\/\"\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>courtesy of the Nation After snapping up Zambian international midfielder Julius Situmbeko to a three year deal and capturing Ugandan<\/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-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","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=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}