{"id":40368,"date":"2016-01-19T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=40368"},"modified":"2016-01-19T16:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:07:09","slug":"bilello-teases-dp-signing-via-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=40368","title":{"rendered":"Bilello Teases DP Signing via Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40371\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40371\" data-attachment-id=\"40371\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=40371\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bilello-1.png?fit=599%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"599,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bilello-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bilello-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bilello-1.png?fit=599%2C415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bilello-1.png?resize=599%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz\" width=\"599\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bilello-1.png?w=599 599w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bilello-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Revolution president Brian Bilello confirmed on Tuesday the club completed a Designated Player signing, but stopped short of confirming the player&#8217;s identity. <\/p>\n<p>Bilello announced the signing &#8211; which he confirmed was a pre-contract arrangement &#8211; via Twitter, saying that more details will come &#8220;in the next few weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Completed a DP signing this week. Pre-contract, should be able to share more details in the next few weeks. More signings still to come.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Bilello (@RevsPrez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevsPrez\/status\/689539980054568960\">January 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fact that the signing was completed via pre-contract suggests that the player in question will not be available immediately, but rather, later in the season, possibly during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>In November, reports surfaced that Newcastle United midfielder Cheick Tiote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/newcastle-transfers-cheick-tiote-reportedly-10461075\">was being targeted by the Revolution<\/a>. A transfer fee would be required in order to sign the 29-year-old Ivory Coast international as his current contract runs through the 2016-17 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>With midfielder Jermaine Jones out of contract, the Revolution currently do not have a designated player on the roster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revs president Brian Bilello confirmed via Twitter the club completed a designated player signing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40371,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[207,891,888,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bilello-1.png?fit=599%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40368"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40368"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40380,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40368\/revisions\/40380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}