{"id":21124,"date":"2017-08-19T06:37:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T06:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=21124"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"abraham-sets-his-sights-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2017\/08\/19\/abraham-sets-his-sights-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Sets His Sights High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that many Swansea fans would be happy to see that road start today with a first Premier League goal for the club following his loan switch in the summer, a move that he says was sealed by the way that Paul Clement handled the potential move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came to my house and got to know my family,&#8221; said Abraham. &#8220;We made a decision from there that he is someone I would love to work with and he had good ambitions for me. That&#8217;s always nice and that&#8217;s when I decided.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You get to know the coach and what he wants and what his plans are for the season and for you. It gives me confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a big decision and we sat down as a family and put all the facts down and decided Swansea was the place to be. I spoke to staff at Chelsea as well and they said Paul is a fantastic guy and is really going to improve you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is certainly not a young lad who is devoid of confidence though as he reveals one of his ambitions is to be the very best that there is &#8220;I would love to win some major trophies and I would love to win the Ballon d&#8217;Or, that would be a perfect career,&#8221; he told Sky Sports. &#8220;It&#8217;s something to push for and work hard for. I have always been ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to dream big this year. Last year I would have never dreamed of getting near 30 goals and I got 26 which was a massive thing for me. My dad said this year you have to aim for what you got last year, even beat it&#8230;I love it, it drives me and it&#8217;s something to work hard for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a hugely impressive spell at Bristol City last season, Abraham opted to head to South Wales this time around after signing a new extended deal at Chelsea in the summer.   And after drawing a blank last week in the 0-0 draw with Southampton he would love to open his credit at the Liberty today against former manager Jose Mourinho, one of his former managers.<\/p>\n<p>When Jose Mourinho was Chelsea manager the first time around, I was a young boy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Abraham said in today&#8217;s matchday programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I took pictures of him when I saw him at the training ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153During his second spell in charge, I trained with the first team quite a few times.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He gave me some wise words.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He said stay focused, keep scoring goals and being hungry and you will get your chance. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Luckily I got it towards the end of that season.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><#mufc #cfc><copyrightAction Images><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sure that many Swansea fans would be happy to see that road start today with a first Premier League goal for the club following his loan switch in the summer, a move that he says was sealed by the way that Paul Clement handled the potential move. &#8220;He came to my house and [&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-21124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124","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=21124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}