{"id":19848,"date":"2015-06-27T15:57:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T15:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=19848"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"ki-linked-with-arsenal-as-schneiderlin-completes-man-utd-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/06\/27\/ki-linked-with-arsenal-as-schneiderlin-completes-man-utd-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Ki Linked With Arsenal As Schneiderlin Completes Man Utd Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Star is reporting that United will pay an initial \u00c2\u00a320m rising to \u00c2\u00a325m to land Schneiderlin on a \u00c2\u00a3120,000-a-week contract which in itself is crazy enough but it could well be a deal that costs the Swans one of their own stars.<\/p>\n<p>The Express reported that Ki was a target for Arsenal who also wanted Schneiderlin to bolster their midfield as they try and turn their annual Champions League qualification into a proper title challenge for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Ki was one of our stars of last season making 33 appearances for the Swans to re-ignite a career with the club that looked lost under the previous manager Michael Laudrup.<\/p>\n<p>After spending a season on loan at Sunderland, Ki was back and looking the kind of midfielder we had bought when we paid Celtic \u00c2\u00a36m for his services three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And the faith shown in him by Garry Monk was justified as we completed our best ever Premier League season finishing in 8th place with 56 points.<\/p>\n<p>It was the kind of form that was always likely to attract the interest of other clubs and with Arsenal now looking as if they have missed out on their number 1 midfield target attention could turn back to Ki with them potentially trying to tempt the Swans with a \u00c2\u00a312m to \u00c2\u00a315m bid to secure his services.<\/p>\n<p><#afc #mufc #saintsfc><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Star is reporting that United will pay an initial \u00c2\u00a320m rising to \u00c2\u00a325m to land Schneiderlin on a \u00c2\u00a3120,000-a-week contract which in itself is crazy enough but it could well be a deal that costs the Swans one of their own stars. The Express reported that Ki was a target for Arsenal who [&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-19848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848","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=19848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}