{"id":13712,"date":"2006-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=13712"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"martinez-joins-chester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2006\/07\/29\/martinez-joins-chester\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez Joins Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Martinez Signs On At Chester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swanseacity.rivals.net\/default.asp?sid=971&#038;p=2&#038;stid=8416617\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Swansea skipper Roberto Martinez has signed on the dotted line at Chester City following his release from the Liberty Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez signed a two year deal at the nicely names Saunders Honda Stadium following on from what he would class as a frustrating end to his Swansea career as he explained to BBC Sport &quot;I didn&#8217;t want to leave Swansea, but the decision was out of my hands so you just look forward,<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m delighted with my dealings with Chester and I&#8217;m looking forward to working with (manager) Mark Wright. The football challenge here excites me.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The move came after a week or so of contract discussions and Chester have reported that they beat off a few clubs for the signature of the Spaniard. Earlier in the week Wright had commented &quot;We have made what I think is an attractive, revised offer to Roberto, and hopefully he will agree to join us&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez was released following the play off final defeat along with Adrian Forbes who has joined Blackpool and Brian Murphy who appears to still be without a club.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martinez Signs On At Chester Former Swansea skipper Roberto Martinez has signed on the dotted line at Chester City following his release from the Liberty Stadium. Martinez signed a two year deal at the nicely names Saunders Honda Stadium following on from what he would class as a frustrating end to his Swansea career as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}