{"id":20668,"date":"2015-10-19T07:07:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T07:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=20668"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:12:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:12:48","slug":"monk-dismisses-liverpool-ayew-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2015\/10\/19\/monk-dismisses-liverpool-ayew-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk Dismisses Liverpool Ayew Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those players linked is Swans star Andre Ayew who was linked with a move to Anfield in the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a pretty impressive start to the season for Ayew who joined the Swans back in the summer on a free transfer. He already has four league goals to his name this season and will look to build on that when Stoke arrive at the Liberty this evening.<\/p>\n<p>But Swans boss Garry Monk is quick to dismiss that speculation and continued his normal line when players are linked with a move away that he is not thinking about it<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The speculation starts earlier and earlier every year, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think about it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Monk told Wales Online<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is no point in me focusing on things like that, things are not reality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The things I need to concentrate on are the things in front of me that are reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Until anyone comes to me and says anything concrete it is not worth thinking about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is part of the game, players get linked everywhere, every year. That is part of the job and I never focus on that.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is not my concern if he is a Liverpool fan or not. I could say there are 1,000 players I admire in the game, but is there any point in that?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&lt;#lfc&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those players linked is Swans star Andre Ayew who was linked with a move to Anfield in the January transfer window. It has been a pretty impressive start to the season for Ayew who joined the Swans back in the summer on a free transfer. He already has four league goals to his [&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-20668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20668","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=20668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}