{"id":16537,"date":"2009-07-31T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16537"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"sousa-reveals-talks-with-saints-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/07\/31\/sousa-reveals-talks-with-saints-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sousa Reveals Talks With Saints Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish duo are both looking to leave St Mary&#8217;s this summer following Southampton&#8217;s relegation to League One, and Sousa admits that he&#8217;s held talks with the duo. <\/p>\n<p>Saganowski scored twice against the Swans last season in the 2-2 draw on the South Coast, while Rasiak spent the season on loan at Watford, scoring 8 in just 12 starts. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely that a deal for both would set the club back almost \u00c2\u00a31m, but thanks to the money earned from the Roberto Martinez and Jason Scotland sales, the price should be easily affordable. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sousa hasn&#8217;t yet closed the door on Pablo Counago joining, the Spaniard rejected terms on a deal at the Liberty last weekend, but a move still could be on. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything can be possible in football life, it can change very easily,&#8221; the Swans boss told the BBC. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve talked with them (Saganowski and Rasiak) and we&#8217;ve talked also with other players. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can be both, it can be only one, it can be others. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have all of August to find the right player. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sooner they come the easier it is for him to adapt to our ideas and identity and fight for a position like the others. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important thing to have is desire and hunger from the player and ambition to play in our squad, because it&#8217;s not easy to play in our squad. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to get a good deal for the club, for myself, for the player and for the club he represents.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polish duo are both looking to leave St Mary&#8217;s this summer following Southampton&#8217;s relegation to League One, and Sousa admits that he&#8217;s held talks with the duo. Saganowski scored twice against the Swans last season in the 2-2 draw on the South Coast, while Rasiak spent the season on loan at Watford, scoring 8 [&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-16537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537","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=16537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}