{"id":16992,"date":"2009-12-22T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16992"},"modified":"2020-12-21T21:25:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:25:53","slug":"kuqi-emerges-as-swans-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/12\/22\/kuqi-emerges-as-swans-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuqi Emerges As Swans Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is only a matter of days before the transfer window opens and the rumours can start once more but this one came in early with the Swans linked with a move for the veteran striker.<\/p>\n<p>And whilst Huw Jenkins would not confirm the name of players he admitted that the Swans were looking for the type of striker that Kuqi could be described as &#8220;Paulo is looking for a big, strong centre-forward, there&#8217;s no secret there<\/p>\n<p>Kuqi is currently playing for German second-tier side TuS Koblenz after rejecting the chance to stay at Palace last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-cap star spent five seasons playing in Finland before joining Stockport County almost nine years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Next came a stint at Wednesday before a move to Ipswich saw Kuqi shoot to prominence.<\/p>\n<p>He struck 20 second-tier goals in 2004-05 to earn himself a chance in the Premier League with Blackburn, where he scored seven goals in one season.<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a32.5million switch to Palace followed in 2006 and Kuqi endured mixed fortunes at Selhurst Park.<\/p>\n<p>He had another stint in the top flight on a four-month loan with Fulham in 2007 and a temporary spell back at Ipswich before winning over Neil Warnock last season, when he finished as Palace&#8217;s top scorer.<\/p>\n<p>But Kuqi rejected the offer of a new contract, leaving London to join younger brother Njazi at Koblenz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only a matter of days before the transfer window opens and the rumours can start once more but this one came in early with the Swans linked with a move for the veteran striker. And whilst Huw Jenkins would not confirm the name of players he admitted that the Swans were looking for [&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-16992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992","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=16992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}