{"id":15193,"date":"2008-08-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"wales-legend-says-swans-will-hold-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2008\/08\/03\/wales-legend-says-swans-will-hold-their-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales Legend Says Swans Will Hold Their Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southall was looking forward to the new Championship season in a Wales on Sunday column and seemed to be reasonably praiseful of Swansea&#39;s chances this season.<\/p>\n<p>Southall also believes that there is a danger that Roberto could continue to attract the interest of other clubs &#8211; he has previously been linked with Wigan and Blackburn together with the assistant&#39;s job at Manchester United &#8211; and Nev says that he hasn&#39;t been given the credit he deserves for his transfer dealings.<\/p>\n<p>Southall said &quot;I think they will hold their own.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It may take them and manager Roberto Martinez time to adjust but he seems very switched on, he knows what he is doing and what he wants<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#39;t think he&#39;#s been given the credit he deserved for his shrewdness in the transfer market.&nbsp; He knows the Spanish market and has done his homework and bought players who have adapted &#8211; it could have gone very wrong<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is always the danger that if he is too successful, Swansea will lose him to a bigger club.&nbsp; That&#39;s football, though he has stayed at the Liberty so far.&nbsp; On the field, if they follow the examples of Colchester two years ago and Bristol City last season they may even avoid getting into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Both these newly promoted teams enjoyed excellent startrs to the season and were never in trouble afterwards.&nbsp;&nbsp; If the Swans can consolidate, then there&#39;s no reason why they can&#39;t push on next season.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southall was looking forward to the new Championship season in a Wales on Sunday column and seemed to be reasonably praiseful of Swansea&#39;s chances this season. Southall also believes that there is a danger that Roberto could continue to attract the interest of other clubs &#8211; he has previously been linked with Wigan and Blackburn [&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-15193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193","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=15193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}