{"id":589,"date":"2012-05-10T12:59:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-05-10T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:00:22","slug":"george-bwana-on-mieno-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/george-bwana-on-mieno-link\/","title":{"rendered":"George Bwana on Mieno link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michezoafrika.com\/NewsImages\/Geoerge-Bwana-and-Moses-Odhiambo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Two players\u2019 names have been prominent on the lips and minds of many Kenyan football followers in the past few days following their exploits in the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) recently, these are City Stars\u2019 diminutive striker Dan Sserunkuma and Sofapaka\u2019s lanky midfielder Humphrey Mieno.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unconvinced <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mieno has been linked with KPL giants Gor Mahia in the forthcoming transfer window and the rumor mill got even stronger after his two goals and outstanding performance downed 2008 champions Mathare United, but Gor Mahia Secretary General Mr. George Bwana doesn\u2019t sound too convinced that he will be joining the team soon.<\/p>\n<p>Bwana admits to Gor Mahia having approached Sofapaka over the Kenyan international but says the 2009 KPL champions were not keen on releasing the midfielder, who he describes as a prized asset.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not keen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Mieno is a great player, anyone would want to have him because he is experienced and also has a good tactical prowess but the last time we approached Sofapaka, they sounded like they were not keen on releasing him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Respect contract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-At the moment he is not really our target in the short term since he is also one of Sofapaka\u2019s biggest assets. However, if Sofapaka show any interest in doing business with us we can consider, because we tried talking to them about him last year and we can still do it again in future. At the moment we respect the fact that he has a contract with another team, he told <em>futaa.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mieno is also said to be on the radar of Cyprus outfit Apoel Nicosia which had a great run in this season\u2019s UEFA Champions League before being knocked out by Real Madrid in the second round.<\/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\/george-bwana-on-mieno-link\/\"\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 futaa.com Two players\u2019 names have been prominent on the lips and minds of many Kenyan football followers in<\/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-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}