{"id":18917,"date":"2012-09-01T06:05:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=18917"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"scott-i-couldnt-turn-city-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2012\/09\/01\/scott-i-couldnt-turn-city-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott &#8211; I Couldn&#8217;t Turn City Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Sinclair yesterday completed his move to the Ethiad Stadium and said that he could not turn down the chance to join Manchester City<\/p>\n<p>Sinclair made the &pound;6.2m move to the Premier League Champions on deadline day and said&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m just glad everything is settled and that I&rsquo;m now a City player.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It had been dragging on and there were times I didn&rsquo;t know if it would happen and I had to speak to the chairman and my agent. It was a bit stressful.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But I&rsquo;m relieved that I&rsquo;m here and I can&rsquo;t wait to get started.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had a great time in Swansea, had some great memories like the play-off final, but it was time to have another challenge and go back to a world-class team.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When the chance comes around I don&rsquo;t know many players who would turn down the chance of moving to Manchester City.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, Sinclair admitted that he had not spoken to the manager before completing the move.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the way out of the Liberty yesterday were Fede Bessone (Swindon), Andrea Orlandi and Stephen Dobbie (both Brighton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Sinclair yesterday completed his move to the Ethiad Stadium and said that he could not turn down the chance to join Manchester City Sinclair made the &pound;6.2m move to the Premier League Champions on deadline day and said&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m just glad everything is settled and that I&rsquo;m now a City player. &ldquo;It had been dragging [&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-18917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917","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=18917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}