{"id":17251,"date":"2010-03-23T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17251"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swans-complete-edgar-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/03\/23\/swans-complete-edgar-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans Complete Edgar Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The 22 year old centre half goes straight into this evening&#39;s squad to face Blackpool at Bloomfield Road and provides Paulo Sousa with a timely defensive&nbsp;boost.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Albert Serran, Garry Monk and Fede Bessone are alll struggling with injury while Alan Tate is having to play through the pain barrier.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Edgar, formerly of Newcastle United, joined Burnley on a free transfer in the summer with the Premiership new boys paying &pound;300k in compensation to the Magpies, as he was under the age of 24.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">He made 13 appearances for Newcastle last season, scoring once&nbsp;and has played 6 times for Burnley so far this campaign.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The deal is expected to last until the end of the season, although Burnley have the option to recall Edgar after 28 days.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;I think it&#39;s a great chance for David to get some games because he&#39;s obviously frustrated,&quot; said Burnley boss Brian Laws. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;He wants to be in the team just as much as anybody else. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;I can&#39;t fit him in at this moment in time David is very much in our thoughts and I think getting him first-team games with Swansea, who are playing really good football and in a position where they are winning consistently, is a fantastic opportunity.&quot;<\/font> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22 year old centre half goes straight into this evening&#39;s squad to face Blackpool at Bloomfield Road and provides Paulo Sousa with a timely defensive&nbsp;boost. Albert Serran, Garry Monk and Fede Bessone are alll struggling with injury while Alan Tate is having to play through the pain barrier. Edgar, formerly of Newcastle United, joined [&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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251","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=17251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}