{"id":8863,"date":"2012-01-30T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2012-01-30T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T16:12:20","slug":"lekic-over-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=8863","title":{"rendered":"Lekic Over and Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another major component of the Revolution attack will not be returning this year, as Danish newspaper Jydske Vestkysten<\/em> is reporting that Rajko Lekic has signed a six-month contract\u00a0with Danish Superliga side Lyngby Boldklub. <\/a>Terms of the deal will reportedly be published on Monday.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old goalscorer is the second Revolution striker\u00a0this month to take his services elsewhere. In January, Milton Caraglio signed with C.S.D. Rangers of Chile after failing to come to an agreement with New England. Both players had their club options declined in November.<\/p>\n

Lekic, who’s contract expired on Dec. 31, was in negotiations with the Revolution on an extension, but was apparently unwilling to re-sign the semi-guaranteed deal the team reportedly offered. He publicly stated that he was willing to take less money to stay in New England, but wanted the security of a guaranteed deal with family concerns cited as his primary reason for the request.<\/p>\n

In December, Lekic tweeted, “Unfortunately, it does not look like I\u2019m re-signing (with the) New England Revolution.” But, the two sides resumed talks on a new deal with the hope that the\u00a0Danish striker\u00a0would return for 2012.<\/p>\n

In the end, it appears that Lekic and the Revolution were too far apart. With the team’s preseason in full-swing and an attractive offer on the table from Lyngby, who currently\u00a0sit six points inside of the relegation\u00a0zone of the Superliga,\u00a0Lekic apparently couldn’t say no to a return to Denmark.<\/p>\n

In 23 games with the Revolution, Lekic scored six goals and an added an assist. Despite enduring an eight-game goalscoring drought shortly after he was signed last\u00a0April, the fiery forward became a fan favorite for his emotional on-field demeanor, which ranged from passionate pleas to referees on offside calls to enthusiastic jersey-shedding goal celebrations.<\/p>\n

With Lekic apparently out of the picture, head coach Jay Heaps recently hinted that the team is lining up a pair of potential goalscoring targets. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a Danish newspaper, Rajko Lekic has elected to sign with Danish side Lyngby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8864,"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\/01\/Lekic1.png?fit=421%2C250","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863"}],"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=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8866,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions\/8866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}