{"id":542999,"date":"2026-07-25T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542999\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:36:09","slug":"team-news-robertos-latest-on-deki-kudus-and-vicario-from-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542999\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news | Roberto\u2019s latest on Deki, Kudus and Vicario from New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Roberto De Zerbi reports that Mo Kudus is \u2018very close\u2019 to returning to action.<\/p>\n<p>The winger has been out with a muscle issue since early January \u2013 missing our final 23 matches in all competitions last season.<\/p>\n<p>Asked at his first press conference in Auckland on Saturday afternoon, local time, how close Mo was to coming back, Roberto said: \u201cKudus is very close. I think when we come back to London he will be available to start working with us. It&#8217;s a great thing for us. Kudus is another important player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberto also gave the latest on Guglielmo Vicario and Deki Kulusevski. \u201cVicario is injured, not a big injury, but he needs to stay one week in London,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKulusevski, we have to see in the next couple of weeks. He&#8217;s another important player. After one season, one complete season, without a game, we have to analyse better and better, don&#8217;t take risks, first of all for him and then for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto De Zerbi reports that Mo Kudus is \u2018very close\u2019 to returning to action. The winger has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,7364],"class_list":["post-542999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}