{"id":16397,"date":"2009-06-04T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16397"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"the-end-nears-wigan-get-permission-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/06\/04\/the-end-nears-wigan-get-permission-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Nears &#8211; Wigan Get Permission To Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"2\">As the speculation reaches fever pitch over the will he\/ won&#39;t he scenario Wigan have confirmed that they have had permission to talk to Roberto about their managerial vacancy<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">&nbsp;A statement released via their official site said &quot;<\/font><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Wigan Athletic Football Club can announce that it has been given permission by Swansea City Football Club to speak to their manager, Roberto Martinez about the vacant manager&#39;s position.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">&quot;A compensation deal has also been agreed, and now Wigan Athletics&#39; Chief Executive, Brenda Spencer will meet with Roberto as soon as possible to try and agree a deal to bring him to the club.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As Chairman, Dave Whelan stated yesterday, Roberto is our number one choice and we are delighted to have permission to speak with him. &quot;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">It appears that the Swans may be looking for a new manager themselves in due course<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">The Swans own statement read &quot;Swansea City can confirm that they have reluctantly given Wigan Athletic permission to speak to Roberto Martinez about the vacant Manager&#39;s position at the JJB Stadium.<\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Permission was granted when Wigan&#39;s offer of compensation reached the appropriate level set by Swansea City, and was only given when taking into account Roberto&#39;s own wishes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the speculation reaches fever pitch over the will he\/ won&#39;t he scenario Wigan have confirmed that they have had permission to talk to Roberto about their managerial vacancy &nbsp;A statement released via their official site said &quot;Wigan Athletic Football Club can announce that it has been given permission by Swansea City Football Club to [&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-16397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397","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=16397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}