{"id":17727,"date":"2010-11-14T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17727"},"modified":"2020-11-13T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:56:25","slug":"sinclair-its-good-to-be-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/11\/14\/sinclair-its-good-to-be-settled\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair &#8211; It&#8217;s Good To Be Settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea, Plymouth, QPR, Charlton, Crystal Palace, Birmingham and Wigan have all had the benefit of the 21 year old at some stage in a career but it is Swansea where he appears to be settled and was rewarded this week with an England Under 21 call up.<\/p>\n<p>Eight clubs in a period of less than four years is some going but Sinclair has enjoyed varying lengths of loan spell and varying degress of success at the clubs before Brendan Rodgers spent \u00a3500,000 to make him a Jack back in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>11 goals later and Sinclair will be looking to help the Swans back to winning ways this afternoon enjoying his football now as much as at any time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just feels good to be settled,\u201d he told Wales on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a house up in the Neath Valley and I have my family only a hour-and-a-half away, so it\u2019s easy for them to come down and watch me in games. When I was on loan, they\u2019d have to travel three hours or so just to see me get five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great for everyone that we all know there\u2019s 90 minutes for me at the weekend and I\u2019m thriving on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at my statistics, I haven\u2019t got a huge amount of games to my name \u2013 but I feel like I\u2019m experienced at the same time<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had the benefit of being at a massive club like Chelsea, but moving around so much and being at so many clubs means I\u2019ve been able to go out and experience things in a short space of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been able to see the bigger picture a bit better than perhaps others might.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019m settled I can appreciate it more and in return people are seeing my qualities coming out more and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can&#8217;t show what you\u2019ve got when you\u2019re not playing every week and those opportunities have been limited for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019m at a club where it knows where it\u2019s heading and what it wants to do, and because of that I know where I\u2019m going and what I need to do to get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was down to the manager,\u201d says Sinclair on the move. \u201cHe was the key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know much about Swansea, about the place, what it would be like living in Wales. But I knew the manager. I trusted him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m glad I did because I\u2019ve come into a side with some top-class lads who want to play football which we\u2019re showing to everyone in the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the system suits me and I\u2019m enjoying playing there, but the manager knowing me was the important thing. Having belief in me, that was huge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m having to come to terms with defenders doubling up on me and I\u2019m having to work out how to adapt to that, to come up with different movements and game-plans so I can still get on the ball and run at defences,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still learning, but I love getting on the ball and looking to do something, to get past someone and create something. It\u2019s why you play football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all part of getting that experience of playing games now and it\u2019s helping me develop. I want to be the player I can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2010\/11\/14\/swansea-s-scott-sinclair-on-right-road-to-football-heaven-91466-27654169\/?#ixzz15FAQ5iWs\">http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2010\/11\/14\/swansea-s-scott-sinclair-on-right-road-to-football-heaven-91466-27654169\/?#ixzz15FAQ5iWs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea, Plymouth, QPR, Charlton, Crystal Palace, Birmingham and Wigan have all had the benefit of the 21 year old at some stage in a career but it is Swansea where he appears to be settled and was rewarded this week with an England Under 21 call up. Eight clubs in a period of less than [&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-17727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727","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=17727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}