{"id":11510,"date":"2010-07-19T22:47:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T02:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2010-07-19T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T02:47:31","slug":"stephane-mbia-delay-angers-marseille-boss-deschamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=11510","title":{"rendered":"Stephane Mbia delay angers Marseille boss Deschamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Marseille coach Didier Deschamps has expressed his anger at Cameroon&#8217;s Stephane Mbia <\/strong><em>(in photo),<\/em><strong> after he failed to arrive on time for pre-season training.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The defensive midfielder should have joined up with the rest of the squad in Marseille on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The team are now at a training camp in south-west France, and Mbia had not arrived there by Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a bit of confusion in his head &#8211; I told him to show respect to the club,&#8221; said Deschamps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If he wants to leave, it&#8217;s simple &#8211; if a club offers 18 million euros [\u00c2\u00a315.08m], I&#8217;ll take him there tomorrow if he wants me to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbia had been given extended time off after his involvement with Cameroon in the recent World Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He arrived back in France on Tuesday and was expected to finally join up with his team-mates later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mbia told the AFP news agency that flight connection problems had delayed his return and claimed he had apologised to Deschamps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I spoke to the coach, who said that he was expecting me as quickly as possible and I apologised &#8211; but there&#8217;s no problem,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marseille coach Didier Deschamps has expressed his anger at Cameroon&#8217;s Stephane Mbia (in photo), after he failed to arrive on time for pre-season training. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[4278,4279],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-didier-deschamps","tag-stephane-mbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}