{"id":40834,"date":"2021-04-29T21:12:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=40834"},"modified":"2021-04-29T21:12:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:12:53","slug":"contract-extension-for-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2021\/04\/29\/contract-extension-for-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract extension for Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full back Kyle Naughton has put pen to paper on an extended contract at the Liberty Stadium meaning he will remain at the club for a further 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The player who signed from Tottenham Hotspur in 2015 will take his stay at the club to at least seven years as a result of the deal and now has more than 200 appearances under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will see him pass his 33rd birthday at the club and he is expected to play a key part in the plans for next season no matter which division the Swans are in.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Cooper confirmed the extension earlier today as he explained\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re delighted that he\u2019s committed to another year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s had an excellent season so far, and he has shown great leadership on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyle has shown his versatility at right-back and right centre-back, and he is a very popular member of the squad. He is highly respected and regarded as a footballer by his team-mates and the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full back Kyle Naughton has put pen to paper on an extended contract at the Liberty Stadium meaning he will remain at the club for a further 12 months. The player who signed from Tottenham Hotspur in 2015 will take his stay at the club to at least seven years as a result of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49],"tags":[385,317],"class_list":["post-40834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","tag-kyle-naughton","tag-20-21-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}