{"id":45638,"date":"2021-08-11T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=45638"},"modified":"2021-08-10T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T22:08:52","slug":"is-martin-about-to-persuade-grimes-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2021\/08\/11\/is-martin-about-to-persuade-grimes-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Martin about to persuade Grimes to stay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We want you to stay&#8221; were the chants from the travelling Jack Army at Reading last evening as they made their views clear on the Swans captain Matt Grimes with his future still uncertain after a summer of speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Grimes has been linked with a move to several clubs this summer and it was reported over a week ago that he was on the verge of completing a move to Fulham but he still remains a Swansea player and that is increasing speculation that he could be persuaded to extend his time at the Swans beyond his current deal.<\/p>\n<p>And Head Coach Russell Martin admits &#8211; albeit tongue in cheek &#8211; that he joined in with the chants towards the captain.\u00a0 Speaking to Wales Online after the match Martin said\u00a0&#8220;I joined in, anyone who sits in this chair and says, a player of that calibre, if they want him to leave then they&#8217;d be crazy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He really suits what we&#8217;re doing, mentally with his character, with his attitude and his courage on the ball. Technically, he could play in any team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So nothing&#8217;s changed really with Grimesy. We want to keep him. We&#8217;ll have to see how that pans out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We want you to stay&#8221; were the chants from the travelling Jack Army at Reading last evening as they made their views clear on the Swans captain Matt Grimes with his future still uncertain after a summer of speculation. Grimes has been linked with a move to several clubs this summer and it was reported [&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":[293,49,203,296],"tags":[344,608],"class_list":["post-45638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-transfer-news","tag-matt-grimes","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45638","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=45638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}