{"id":9013,"date":"2012-02-02T22:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T03:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2012-02-02T22:42:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T03:42:43","slug":"revs-deny-claims-contained-in-feb-1-zerka-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9013","title":{"rendered":"Revs Deny Claims Contained in Feb. 1 Zerka Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the New England Revolution contacted <em>New England Soccer Today<\/em> to deny<a href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=8927\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> the claim of the unnamed source contained in the \u201cZerka Not Returning<\/span>\u201d<\/a> article published on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>In the aforementioned article, the source told <em>New England Soccer Today<\/em> that Revolution head coach Jay Heaps and general manager Michael Burns \u201cnever had serious discussions to try to bring [Monsef] Zerka back.\u201d The Revolution, through their media relations department, asserted that the team did, in fact, attempt to re-sign the French winger and bring him back for the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>While we regret that we did not originally contact the team for a response, the source \u2013 whom we have independently verified as having first-hand knowledge of the negotiations \u2013 stands by its story \u201c100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, the source\u00a0advises that Zerka wanted to remain with the Revolution.\u00a0But after\u00a0preliminary contract talks were conducted, the source asserts\u00a0that the club\u00a0repeatedly stalled during the negotiation process before it eventually notified him\u00a0that it had decided to go in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>The team denies this assertion and claim they did, in fact, work to keep him at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revolution organization asserts that they did, in fact, attempt to re-sign Monsef Zerka, contrary to the source cited in New England Soccer Today&#8217;s Feb. 1 article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8073,"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\/2011\/12\/Zerka1.png?fit=451%2C261","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9030,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions\/9030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}