{"id":16975,"date":"2009-12-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16975"},"modified":"2020-12-10T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:20:16","slug":"rangel-happy-to-extend-swans-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/12\/11\/rangel-happy-to-extend-swans-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangel Happy To Extend Swans Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City defender finds himself just six league starts away from an extension to his stay at Swansea thanks to a clause in his contract.<\/p>\n<p>And in an interview with the Evening Post, the Spanish defender says he could not be happier than he is in Swansea after a hugely successful two and a half year stint to date.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The past few years have been really good for me in Swansea,&#8221; says Rangel, who clocked up his 100th league appearance for the club on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what to expect when I was given the chance to come to Wales, but it has really worked out for me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve settled into the style of play and the life here, even though the weather is not so good, but I am playing for a successful team with a great squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love it here. There was a part of the contract that said I will have another year here if I played so many games, and I&#8217;m very close to that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know of any talk about me now, but the important thing is that I am doing my best to help the team get into the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is where we want to be and I think the club has moved forward in the time I have been here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes if you are listening to people talking to you about this club or that club, then it can stop you playing at 100 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I prefer just to concentrate on Swansea City and what we are doing this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are some massive clubs in the Championship, but I think we proved last year and this season already that we are a very good team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We learned a lot from last season in the league and cup games, and I think we are better off for it this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t play too well on Tuesday,&#8221; he conceded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We kept possession as always, but we didn&#8217;t create much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won the game, but we need to be better against Forest because they are playing very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City defender finds himself just six league starts away from an extension to his stay at Swansea thanks to a clause in his contract. And in an interview with the Evening Post, the Spanish defender says he could not be happier than he is in Swansea after a hugely successful two and a [&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-16975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975","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=16975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}