{"id":18322,"date":"2011-07-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18322"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"allen-pens-new-swans-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/07\/19\/allen-pens-new-swans-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen Pens New Swans Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Rodgers was keen to tie the Welshman down to a new contract, with his previous deal set to expire at the end of the forthcoming season.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>It is unknown how long the new deal is, although it is described as a long term contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans boss told BBC Radio Five Live: &quot;Joe is fantastic. He is a player who at a lot of clubs would not be deemed big enough or strong enough.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was aware of his talent (before joining Swansea last summer), but, while he is not at the same level, he is that Xavi or Iniesta type of player.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He is 5ft 7in, not physically tall or great in stature but he is brilliant on the ball, has great intelligence and good mobility.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;For me it was vital for the likes of him and Neil Taylor to re-sign, they feel I am a manager that can work with young players and these boys are big signings for us.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Joe is a wonderful talent and I am delighted he has signed.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Swans are also hopeful of tieing up new deals for wingers Nathan Dyer and Tommy Butler in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodgers was keen to tie the Welshman down to a new contract, with his previous deal set to expire at the end of the forthcoming season. It is unknown how long the new deal is, although it is described as a long term contract. The Swans boss told BBC Radio Five Live: &quot;Joe is fantastic. [&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-18322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322","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=18322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}