{"id":276954,"date":"2025-11-07T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276954\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:11:09","slug":"im-not-surprised-to-be-playing-regularly-now-mohammed-salisu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276954\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not surprised to be playing regularly now \u2013 Mohammed Salisu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/I-m-not-surprised-to-be-playing-regularly-now-Mohammed-Salisu-2008431?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/25408461.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammed Salisu is Monaco defender\" title=\"Mohammed Salisu is Monaco defender\" width=\"295\" height=\"191\" \/> <\/a>Mohammed Salisu is Monaco defender<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Ghana international Mohammed Salisu says he is not surprised to be playing regularly for AS Monaco at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars centre-back endured a difficult campaign last term, making just 24 appearances across competitions for the French club. The former Real Valladolid marksman was predominantly used as a back-up option, with his last start for Monaco coming in February last season.<\/p>\n<p>This season, the Black Stars defender has regained his starting spot at Monaco, having started the last seven games for the French outfit.<\/p>\n<p>And according to Salisu, he is not surprised to be playing regularly in the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave myself the chance to earn this spot by working hard, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not surprised to be playing regularly now. In training, I&#8217;m improving and making sure to stay as disciplined as possible, and I&#8217;ve been doing that since the restart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old centre-back has made six appearances in the French Ligue 1 for Monaco, scoring one goal across the period. In the Champions League, Salisu has racked up three appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The defender joined Monaco in the summer of 2023, signing a five-year deal with the Principality club. Since joining Monaco, the Black Stars defender has racked up 46 appearances, scoring four goals and an assist across the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammed Salisu is Monaco defender Ghana international Mohammed Salisu says he is not surprised to be playing regularly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-276954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}