{"id":19647,"date":"2015-01-11T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T10:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=19647"},"modified":"2021-01-10T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T21:37:25","slug":"carroll-spurs-loss-is-swans-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/01\/11\/carroll-spurs-loss-is-swans-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Carroll &#8211; Spurs Loss Is Swans Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The on loan Tottenham midfielder will be enjoying a run in the side this month thanks to the absence of Ki Sung-Yeung who is away at the Asian Cup. However, with the evidence of recent performances you would hope that the Swans are sitting up and considering a permanent move for the midfielder who signed on loan for the season towards the end of the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll&#8217;s signing was one of the surprise ones of the summer but it is paying dividends with the player showing a clear level of class in the middle of midfield and a composure that goes well beyond his years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#thfc<\/a> The &#39;English Xavi&#39;, Tom Carroll, completed 95 passes for Swansea today, more than any other Premier League player [via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Squawka<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tottenham Way (@TheTottenhamWay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTottenhamWay\/status\/554059850695843841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Carroll himself knows that he has a chance to shine this month and told the official site after yesterday&#8217;s game<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think a draw was a fair result,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Both teams could probably have won it towards the end but we&#8217;re happy with a point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would have been delighted with all three and we could have won it late on because we finished the game strongly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe we can beat anyone at home so once we got the equaliser we immediately thought about pushing on for a winner, but it wasn&#8217;t to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I did well, I got on the ball and tried to make things tick. The football Swansea plays really suits me and I&#8217;m enjoying it at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve come here to play games so hopefully I can stay in the team now and push on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;#thfc @tom_carroll92&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The on loan Tottenham midfielder will be enjoying a run in the side this month thanks to the absence of Ki Sung-Yeung who is away at the Asian Cup. However, with the evidence of recent performances you would hope that the Swans are sitting up and considering a permanent move for the midfielder who signed [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19647","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=19647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}