{"id":18361,"date":"2011-07-30T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18361"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swans-to-seal-newcastle-man-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/07\/30\/swans-to-seal-newcastle-man-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans To Seal Newcastle Man Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>According to the Independent, Routledge and Leroy Lita will both undergo medicals at the club on Tuesday ahead of putting pen to paper.<\/p>\n<p>A fee was agreed with Newcastle for the services of Routledge a while ago, but with serious interest from the likes of Nottingham Forest and big spenders Leicester, striking a deal has taken longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p>But it now seems that Swansea are set to secure the signature of another&nbsp;one of Brendan Rodgers&#39; top&nbsp;attacking transfer targets, to complement the other forward additions of Lita from Middlesbrough and Danny Graham from Watford.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The bottom line is that we need to have a good squad, and these two are players who are going to help us stay in the league,&quot; Rodgers said at Swansea&rsquo;s pre-season training camp in Austria last night.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They have both played in the Premier League before, they are both hungry to push on and they both have pace.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Independent, Routledge and Leroy Lita will both undergo medicals at the club on Tuesday ahead of putting pen to paper. A fee was agreed with Newcastle for the services of Routledge a while ago, but with serious interest from the likes of Nottingham Forest and big spenders Leicester, striking a deal has [&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-18361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361","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=18361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}