{"id":16883,"date":"2009-11-12T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16883"},"modified":"2020-11-12T07:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T07:12:50","slug":"monk-pens-new-swans-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/11\/12\/monk-pens-new-swans-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk Pens New Swans Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Monk has been in superb form in past seasons and has formed a formidable partnership at the heart of the Swansea defence alongside Ashley Williams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The 30 year old&#8217;s contract was set to expire next summer, but the former Southampton man has signed\u00a0an extension\u00a0early to avoid speculation about his future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to finish my career here,&#8221; Monk told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the progression the club has made, I want to be part of that and I want more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Garry is one of the players we think is very important to our project for his experience, quality and leadership,&#8221; Swans boss Paulo Sousa said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is an important figure in the dressing room and on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows the club&#8217;s philosophy and I&#8217;m delighted he&#8217;s committed his long-term future to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s thought to be the first of many contract extensions to come, with Leon Britton, Tom Butler, Andrea Orlandi and\u00a0Cedric van der Gun all\u00a0out of contract in July 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monk has been in superb form in past seasons and has formed a formidable partnership at the heart of the Swansea defence alongside Ashley Williams. The 30 year old&#8217;s contract was set to expire next summer, but the former Southampton man has signed\u00a0an extension\u00a0early to avoid speculation about his future. &nbsp; &#8220;I would love 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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883","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=16883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}