{"id":17743,"date":"2010-11-20T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17743"},"modified":"2020-11-20T07:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:30:54","slug":"williams-unconcerned-with-premier-league-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/11\/20\/williams-unconcerned-with-premier-league-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams Unconcerned With Premier League Rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams has this week been again linked with a move away from the Liberty Stadium but also looks set to sign a new deal that will extend his contract at the club.<\/p>\n<p>And ever the true pro, the Wales captain is concentrating on the job in hand starting this afternoon at Doncaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always nice to hear your name mentioned, it shows you are doing things the right way&#8221; he told the Western Mail<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone told me about the rumours and I had a look. It\u2019s always nice to be making good headlines but I don\u2019t know where it came from and I haven\u2019t heard anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had this a few times in my career with Swansea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t take any notice of it I just concentrate on getting on with my job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was a manager in the Premier League I would definitely be coming down to check us out,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have stepped up this season and it\u2019s been a bit like having some new players, that\u2019s all down to the gaffer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows about us now and we have shown what we\u2019ve got over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis team gives you the platform to perform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonks and Tate are obviously a big loss but the great thing about the squad now is we\u2019ve got good players who can come in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaylor\u2019s been a different class for us and Albert\u2019s worked very hard and been patient for his chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve played with them both quite a bit so I\u2019ve got no worries with those two coming into the side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in the middle of a really good run away from home and we want to keep that going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is almost a little easier away from home because teams are trying to win the game not just defend like at the Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a credit to the way we both play,\u201d said Swansea\u2019s Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes when you can\u2019t go out and buy the biggest and best players you have to do something a bit different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you come up from League One it\u2019s a brave move to then try and keep playing football, many teams change their style to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got some really good footballers there who know how to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrian is probably one of the best midfielders in this league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is someone who can control a game and has been the heart and soul of Doncaster over the last few years, he really makes things tick from the middle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a lot of qualities, his passing and his reading of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid Healy is a top-class striker and it will be a difficult game for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoncaster are a nice team to watch and will try to play the game the same way as us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are always good games and ones I enjoy playing in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never a boring game. We are always pitched as two of the best footballing sides in the league.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams has this week been again linked with a move away from the Liberty Stadium but also looks set to sign a new deal that will extend his contract at the club. And ever the true pro, the Wales captain is concentrating on the job in hand starting this afternoon at Doncaster. \u201cIt\u2019s always nice [&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-17743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743","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=17743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}