{"id":8734,"date":"2016-08-03T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2016-08-04T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:59:10","slug":"khalid-auchos-trial-at-aberdeen-falls-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/khalid-auchos-trial-at-aberdeen-falls-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Aucho&#8217;s trial at Aberdeen falls through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/aucho-aberdeen.jpg\" width=\"566\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Gor Mahia midfield ace Khalid Aucho has concluded his trials at Aberdeen FC.\u00a0 Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes has confirmed the Ugandan ace will not be joining the club. Aucho , who played for Tusker before joining Gor Mahia in 2015, featured in a friendly against Arbroath in July but has not done enough to earn a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Aberdeen need a new midfielder after the departure of Willo Flood, who returned to Dundee United. And despite impressing McInnes, the manager said Aucho is not the kind of player they need.<\/p>\n<p>Aucho has blamed Gor Mahia for the fiasco that ended with him not getting a contract.<\/p>\n<p>I feel so sad my dream of joining Aberdeen has been shattered. I did all I could do on the pitch to impress, but I was told my club Gor Mahia has asked for too much which was impossible for the club to pay,&#8221; Aucho told supersport.com.<\/p>\n<p>However, a senior Gor Mahia official, who sought anonymity, has stated the club had not received any offers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gor Mahia cannot be blamed on the Khalid Aucho fiasco; we saw it coming as some agents wanted to make a killing out of the deal making it flop. Gor Mahia got no offers and it&#8217;s not in our policy to refuse players seeking greener pastures,&#8221; the official said to supersport.<\/p>\n<p>Aucho has been the subject of bizzarre transfer speculation on social media since June. He is now likely to travel to South Africa for a trial with Bidvest Wits<\/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\/khalid-auchos-trial-at-aberdeen-falls-through\/\"\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>Former Gor Mahia midfield ace Khalid Aucho has concluded his trials at Aberdeen FC.\u00a0 Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes has confirmed<\/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":[112],"class_list":["post-8734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734","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=8734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8736,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions\/8736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}