{"id":18386,"date":"2011-08-08T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18386"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swans-interest-in-middlesbrough-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2011\/08\/08\/swans-interest-in-middlesbrough-defender\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans Interest In Middlesbrough Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Sports report that Swansea have interest in Middlesbrough defender Matthew Bates<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has just one year left on his current deal at The Riverside, and Boro could be forced to sell if a new contract cannot be agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Bates has battled back from four cruciate knee operations and is now a lynch-pin of Tony Mowbray&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>But the Premier League new-boys &#8211; who have already raided Teesside to recruit Leroy Lita this summer &#8211; are now keen on former England youth star Bates.<\/p>\n<p>The classy central-defender, who can also play full-back or in midfield, could now be offered the chance to leave his hometown club &#8211; although Boro are likely to try and tie him down to a new deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Sports report that Swansea have interest in Middlesbrough defender Matthew Bates The 24-year-old has just one year left on his current deal at The Riverside, and Boro could be forced to sell if a new contract cannot be agreed. Bates has battled back from four cruciate knee operations and is now a lynch-pin of [&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-18386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386","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=18386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}