{"id":17377,"date":"2010-05-07T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17377"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"martinez-refuses-to-rule-out-pratley-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/05\/07\/martinez-refuses-to-rule-out-pratley-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez Refuses To Rule Out Pratley Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Reports in today&#39;s newspapers link the former Fulham man with a &pound;2.5m move to the Premier League to join up with his former boss Martinez, who admits he is an admirer.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Pratley finished up as Swansea&#39;s top goalscorer with 7 after another impressive season at the club and he has also been linked to Sunderland and Newcastle in recent weeks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">With his contract expiring in the summer of 2011, Huw Jenkins and&nbsp;Paulo Sousa&nbsp;could be tempted into selling the 25 year old this summer if he isn&#39;t to pen a new deal.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Predictably, Martinez gave his usual line during interviews when asked about summer transfers: &ldquo;We need character and quality.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We will be looking for young players to come in and expand their game and their abilities.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;This is the exciting situation. We aim to bring fresh challenges into the dressing room, a new dimension to the squad. But all that comes after Sunday.&rdquo;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;Pratley is a player I know well and he is young and has Premier League potential. We need different ingredients in our squad.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;There is speculation about a lot of players, and I am not going to say that it is wrong. But although Pratley has been a big player in the Championship, there is a huge gap between that and the Premier League.&rdquo;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports in today&#39;s newspapers link the former Fulham man with a &pound;2.5m move to the Premier League to join up with his former boss Martinez, who admits he is an admirer. Pratley finished up as Swansea&#39;s top goalscorer with 7 after another impressive season at the club and he has also been linked to Sunderland [&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-17377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377","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=17377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}