{"id":18224,"date":"2011-06-08T02:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18224"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"brendan-delighted-to-have-captured-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/06\/08\/brendan-delighted-to-have-captured-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Delighted To Have Captured Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager was speaking after smashing the Swans transfer record with the &pound;3.5m capture of Graham from Watford.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Evening Post &quot;We are delighted to have Danny on board <\/p>\n<p>&quot;First and foremost he is a goalscorer &mdash; the highest goalscorer in our league last season &mdash; and he gives us another real threat up front as we go into a league where we need to score goals.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Technically he is strong &mdash; he has two good feet, a great touch and he can finish on either side.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He can set the game up short or he can run behind and he wants to score goals.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Tactically he is good as well &mdash; I have seen him over the last couple of seasons filling in out wide, as he did when he played down here.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He is adaptable and hopefully he will fit in with our philosophy very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Physically Danny is strong.&nbsp; He has power and he has a turn of speed &#8211; when he is away he is away.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He can also hold the ball up &#8211; his body is strong and he had a great capacity in the duel.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mentally he is hungry.&nbsp; He had a dabble in the Premier League when he was young, then he had to go and earn his stripes.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now he has come back more mature and he is hungry to succeed,<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The way we play, the central striker has to press and he has to be aggressive.&nbsp; When people watch Danny they will see that he works very hard so he has all the ingredients to do very well in the Premier League.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City manager was speaking after smashing the Swans transfer record with the &pound;3.5m capture of Graham from Watford. He told the Evening Post &quot;We are delighted to have Danny on board &quot;First and foremost he is a goalscorer &mdash; the highest goalscorer in our league last season &mdash; and he gives us another [&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-18224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18224","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=18224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}