{"id":16995,"date":"2009-12-24T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16995"},"modified":"2020-12-23T20:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T20:43:44","slug":"martinez-still-keen-on-britton-for-wigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/12\/24\/martinez-still-keen-on-britton-for-wigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez Still Keen On Britton For Wigan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I still have a feeling that this is nothing more than paper talk where they put two and two together and fill up some column inches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It&#8217;s an obvious one to put out there &#8211; former manager notices that midfielder has not signed a new deal therefore former manager must be interested in making a move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The paper today reports<\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Wigan boss Robert Martinez is ready to pounce for Swansea old boy midfielder Leon Britton &#8211; if the Welsh club decide to cash in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;Britton has rejected a new deal with Paulo Sousa&#8217;s team and the Championship promotion-chasers may choose to sell rather than let his contract run out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8220;The former West Ham prospect has 18 months left on his deal but could be sold &#8211; with Martinez keen to take him on board if the price is right.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It does seem likely that Britton is set to leave in January but I firmly remain in the camp that believes that if he moves on it will be a club nearer the capital rather than a relagation candidate in the Premiership.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still have a feeling that this is nothing more than paper talk where they put two and two together and fill up some column inches. It&#8217;s an obvious one to put out there &#8211; former manager notices that midfielder has not signed a new deal therefore former manager must be interested in making 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-16995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995","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=16995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}