{"id":16273,"date":"2009-04-17T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16273"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"and-now-its-west-ham-and-angel-rangel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/04\/17\/and-now-its-west-ham-and-angel-rangel\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now It&#8217;s West Ham And Angel Rangel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of Celtic reported as being interested, it is not Gianfranco Zola and West Ham who are tracking Rangel according to reports as a replacement for Lucas Neill who is yet to agree a new deal at Upton Park.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reports that the Swans &#39;want&#39; &pound;4m for the man widely regarded as one of the best right backs outside the Premiership.<\/p>\n<p>The report in today&#39;s Daily Mirror says &quot;West Ham boss Gianfranco Zola is chasing Swansea&#39;s Spanish right-back Angel Rangel &#8211; as a potential replacement for out-ofcontract Lucas Neill.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Zola has been tracking the highly-rated defender for weeks and could make an offer if Australian star Neill does not accept the new and reduced terms on offer to stay.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Rangel has been tracked by several Premier League clubs and Manchester City are also keen, with Swans looking for around &pound;4million.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The 26-year-old has been a major success story for Roberto Martinez, who originally signed him from little-known club Terrassa on a pay-as-you-play deal.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now Rangel is rated one of the best right-backs outside the Premier League and he could be playing at that level next season if Hammers come up with the cash.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Rangel was signed up to a long term deal at Swansea before this season started<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of Celtic reported as being interested, it is not Gianfranco Zola and West Ham who are tracking Rangel according to reports as a replacement for Lucas Neill who is yet to agree a new deal at Upton Park. The paper reports that the Swans &#39;want&#39; &pound;4m for the man widely regarded [&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-16273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273","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=16273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}