{"id":26208,"date":"2011-07-12T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=26208"},"modified":"2011-07-12T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:06:25","slug":"liverpool-watching-sierra-leone-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=26208","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Watching Sierra Leone Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Liverpool <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">are now said to be interested in the Sierra Leone duo <strong>Tetteh Bangura <\/strong>and <strong>Mohamed Bangura<\/strong>. <span>\u00a0<\/span>The pair \u2013 who are not related \u2013 play in Sweden\u2019s top flight for <strong>AIK Solna<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Liverpool scouts watched AIK play Halmstads BK in a Swedish league game last night and Tetteh Bangura scored all four goals in AIK\u2019s 4-0 victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Tetteh, 21, joined the club on a three-year deal at the end of last summer and is in his first season in the club. The striker has now scored 14 goals in 14 league games so far this season for the side and said last month that he was aware of Premier League interest in him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u201cI know Newcastle have seen all my matches and follow me,\u201d he said, although Newcastle subsequently dismissed rumours linking him with a move to St James\u2019s Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Tetteh was signed by AIK having been recommended by Mohamed Bangura, also 21, a former team-mate of his at Sierra Leone side <strong>Kallon<\/strong>. Mohamed came to Sweden last summer when he joined third-tier side <strong>IFK Varnamo<\/strong>. He scored 12 times in 13 games in the first half of last season before joining AIK in July 2010. He has since hit the net 11 times for AIK in 26 Swedish league games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Patrick Mork<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">, who is the agent of both \u201cThe Banguras\u201d as they are known in Sweden, says he expects that a move is on the cards for at least one of the players before the transfer window closes at the end of next month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u201cI expect that at least one of them will leave,\u201d said Mork. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s just me being optimistic or realistic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u201cBut all players want to move on, and it\u2019s my job to help them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">AIK sporting director <strong>Jens Andersson<\/strong> said last month that \u201ca handful\u201d of scouts have been watching his club\u2019s two star turns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u201cWe are in a favourable situation where we have players who are interesting several clubs,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool are now said to be interested in the Sierra Leone duo Tetteh Bangura and Mohamed Bangura. \u00a0The pair \u2013 who are not related \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[4248,1476,2651,2792,7957],"class_list":["post-26208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-aik-solna","tag-leone-stars","tag-mohamed-bangura","tag-sierra-leone-football","tag-tetteh-bangura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/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=26208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}