{"id":16266,"date":"2009-04-14T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16266"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"gomez-linked-with-newcastle-united-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/04\/14\/gomez-linked-with-newcastle-united-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Gomez Linked With Newcastle United Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle&#39;s Chris Hughton was amongst a &#39;gaggle of Premiership scouts&#39; who watched Gomez score the second in the Swans 3&#8211;1 victory at Oakwell that kept alive their own hopes of reaching the Premiership next season.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez has been linked in recent weeks with Celtic and other Premiership clubs after a season of top class performances for the Swans whom he joined last summer in a season long loan from Esplanyol.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#39;s goal was his 14th strike of the season putting him way up the scoring charts in the Championship with the Daily Mail reporting &quot;Spanish playmaker Jordi Gomez produced a stunning goal and two assists to keep Swansea&#39;s slender hopes of a play-off place intact and explain the presence of a gaggle of Premiership scouts at Oakwell.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Newcastle coach Chris Hughton was among those who watched Gomez, the class act in an impressively hardworking Swansea side condemn a predictable Barnsley outfit to a deepening dread of relegation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Gomez, on a season-long loan on Espanyol for a fee of &pound;200,000, began Barnsley&#39;s troubles in the third minute when his wickedly dipping left-wing free-kick caused panic in the goalmouth and left defender Ashley Williams to prod home from point-blank range.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A&nbsp;superb, swerving left-foot shot from 25-yard range was conjured from nothing to put Swansea further ahead in the 39th minute and underline the quality of the Spaniard.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle&#39;s Chris Hughton was amongst a &#39;gaggle of Premiership scouts&#39; who watched Gomez score the second in the Swans 3&#8211;1 victory at Oakwell that kept alive their own hopes of reaching the Premiership next season. Gomez has been linked in recent weeks with Celtic and other Premiership clubs after a season of top class performances [&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-16266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266","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=16266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}