{"id":45066,"date":"2021-07-27T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=45066"},"modified":"2021-07-27T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:42:08","slug":"reports-say-swans-approach-mk-dons-for-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2021\/07\/27\/reports-say-swans-approach-mk-dons-for-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports say Swans approach MK Dons for Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports this evening say that the Swans have approached MK Dons for the chance to speak to their manager Russell Martin as they look to bring to a close their managerial search.<\/p>\n<p>With the name of Jody Morris seemingly still in the frame it now seems to be a two horse race to replace Steve Cooper who left the club after two years last week.<\/p>\n<p>Original first choice John Eustace turned down the Swans at the weekend, opting to stay at QPR and forcing the Swans to think again for their next move.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Martin took over at MK in November 2019 after the sacking of Paul Tisdale and managed to inspire an upturn in results that saw them avoid relegation that season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Martin presided over a 13th-placed finish last season and the former Scotland international is highly thought of in coaching circles and seen as someone with a big future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports this evening say that the Swans have approached MK Dons for the chance to speak to their manager Russell Martin as they look to bring to a close their managerial search. With the name of Jody Morris seemingly still in the frame it now seems to be a two horse race to replace Steve [&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":[293,49,203],"tags":[636,608],"class_list":["post-45066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-russell-martin","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45066","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=45066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}