{"id":17072,"date":"2010-01-23T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17072"},"modified":"2021-01-23T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T13:47:22","slug":"no-wigan-move-for-leon-well-not-yet-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/01\/23\/no-wigan-move-for-leon-well-not-yet-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"No Wigan Move For Leon &#8211; Well, Not Yet Anyway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Wigan, led by former Swansea City manager Roberto Martinez have long since been touted around as possible suitors for Britton who is stalling over a new contract at the Liberty Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">But despite those paper reports there has been no interest from the Wigan manager as yet although the Evening Post suggests that Ben Watson could be used as a pawn in the deal having struggled since joining them for \u00a32m last January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;We have had no offer for Leon from anyone,&#8221; Swansea Chairman Huw Jenkins told the Evening Post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;And as to whether Wigan are interested in him, you will have to ask Roberto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;As far as we are concerned, the situation with Leon is that we are still waiting for him to decide where his future lies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;He has made it clear he would like to wait until the end of the season to make his decision and we have accepted that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;Ideally we would like Leon to sign a new deal and commit to us so we can move forward, but at the moment that doesn&#8217;t look like happening.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wigan, led by former Swansea City manager Roberto Martinez have long since been touted around as possible suitors for Britton who is stalling over a new contract at the Liberty Stadium. But despite those paper reports there has been no interest from the Wigan manager as yet although the Evening Post suggests that Ben Watson [&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-17072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072","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=17072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}