{"id":10398,"date":"2012-03-14T19:10:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2012-03-14T19:12:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T23:12:51","slug":"runstrom-rejects-final-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"Runstr\u00f6m Rejects &#8220;Final Offer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bj\u00f6rn Runstr\u00f6m appears unlikely to join the New England Revolution after turning down the club\u2019s final contract offer, according to his agent Patrick M\u00f6rk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Bj\u00f6rn Runstr\u00f6m tackade just nej till New England Revolutions andra bud, vilket MLS-klubben angav som slutbud<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick M\u00f6rk (@AgentMork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AgentMork\/status\/180041375008567297\" data-datetime=\"2012-03-14T21:23:03+00:00\">March 14, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>New England Soccer Today <\/em>had <a href=\"http:\/\/fotbolltransfers.com\/site\/news\/17699.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fotbolltransfers.com<\/a>\u2019s Jakob Celik translate M\u00f6rk\u2019s tweet: &#8220;Bj\u00f6rn Runstr\u00f6m just turned down New England Revolutions second offer, which the MLS club stated was the final offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish forward scored once in three matches while on trial with the Revolution during the FC Tucson Desert Diamond Cup preseason tournament and apparently impressed head coach Jay Heaps enough to earn a contract offer. Runstr\u00f6m, however, turned down the Revs \u201cfinal offer\u201d after negotiations, accord to his agent&#8217;s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>With French forward Sa\u00ebr S\u00e8ne questionable with left knee swelling and Colombian striker Jose \u201cPepe\u201d Moreno still yet to arrive at the club, the apparent failure to sign Runstr\u00f6m leaves the Revs low on depth and quality up top in the short term.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Runstr\u00f6m, whose career included a stint in the English Premier League with Fulham, is without a club after leaving Hammarby IF in the Swedish second division this winter. His contract with Hammarby was not renewed after a reported disagreement with head coach Greg Berhalter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agent tweets Runstr\u00f6m turned down the Revs final offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/runstromfeature2.jpg?fit=490%2C240","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10402,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}