{"id":19812,"date":"2015-06-22T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"ex-liverpool-man-rules-out-swansea-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/06\/22\/ex-liverpool-man-rules-out-swansea-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Liverpool Man Rules Out Swansea Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babel was linked last week with a return to the Premier League with the Swans rumoured to be one of the potential clubs who were showing an interest in a player who had seen a move to Besiktas break down.<\/p>\n<p>Babel was not a roaring success at Liverpool and I have to say that there was a feeling of being underwhelmed when he was linked with a move here so him distancing himself from the move will not see too many tears shed here in South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Given the position that he plays in and the options that we have available in the squad I would fail to see why Babel could possibly be considered an upgrade on any of our players and I suspect that his wages would be higher than we would want to pay for a 3rd\/4th choice wide man.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to goal.com Babel said &#8220;England is of course a great country to play in and I&#8217;ll always be open for a return<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it has to be a club that I feel good about.  The reality is England won&#8217;t happen at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><#lfc><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babel was linked last week with a return to the Premier League with the Swans rumoured to be one of the potential clubs who were showing an interest in a player who had seen a move to Besiktas break down. Babel was not a roaring success at Liverpool and I have to say that there [&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-19812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812","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=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}