{"id":20222,"date":"2015-08-14T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20222"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swans-join-liverpool-in-midfielder-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/08\/14\/swans-join-liverpool-in-midfielder-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans Join Liverpool In Midfielder Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are being reported by the Express as having joined Liverpool in the chase for the player who is highly regarded in the North of Scotland and having played in the Scottish Cup final for them back in May.<\/p>\n<p>Inverness Caledonian Thistle are managed by former Swans player John Hughes who was part of a Scottish trio that arrived here in the 1990s and included Paul Chalmers and most famously Keith Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally the Scottish Premiership club would like to keep hold of the player and you do wonder if there is a deal there to be done where the transfer is made but the player is allowed to stay for the season at the club?<\/p>\n<p>You can certainly say that Christie matches the mould of the kind of player that we are looking at and we have a track record in recent seasons of bringing players down from Scotland.  This is undoubtedly not a move for the first team at the moment but one for the future so will definitely think it is a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was Liverpool last week, Swansea this week, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve no doubt it will be someone else next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise to me. Ryan is a really talented footballer and we need him in the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to lose him, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure if the money was good then we would sell him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I think part of it would be that he would have to stay for another year here on loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We would never stand in the kid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way if he can go and play in the English Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to put too much pressure on one so young, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a real talent. His technical ability is fantastic and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting better and stronger.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><#lfc><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are being reported by the Express as having joined Liverpool in the chase for the player who is highly regarded in the North of Scotland and having played in the Scottish Cup final for them back in May. Inverness Caledonian Thistle are managed by former Swans player John Hughes who was part of a [&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-20222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222","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=20222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}