{"id":16670,"date":"2009-09-01T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16670"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swans-agreed-deal-for-whitbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/09\/01\/swans-agreed-deal-for-whitbread\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans Agreed Deal For Whitbread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whitbread is out of contract next summer so could pen a pre-contract deal as early as next January, and Jenkins says that the club could make another move in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The American international was arguably Millwall&#8217;s best defender as they just missed out on promotion to the Championship with defeat to Scunthorpe in the play-off final.<\/p>\n<p>Peterborough also had a bid accepted this summer but Whitbread rejected the chance to join the Championship new-boys, although it seems that the 25 year old was keen to make a move to the Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We agreed a deal for Zak with Millwall,&#8221; Jenkins confirmed to the official site. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But because he has just had a hip operation, the player felt it was better if he remained at the club until he was fully fit again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will review the situation again in January.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swansea have strengthened their depleted defence today with the signing of Trinidad &#038; Tobago defender Abu Bakr on a three month deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitbread is out of contract next summer so could pen a pre-contract deal as early as next January, and Jenkins says that the club could make another move in the future. The American international was arguably Millwall&#8217;s best defender as they just missed out on promotion to the Championship with defeat to Scunthorpe in the [&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-16670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670","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=16670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}