{"id":53478,"date":"2022-01-22T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=53478"},"modified":"2022-01-22T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T21:28:21","slug":"is-there-trouble-brewing-with-obafemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/01\/22\/is-there-trouble-brewing-with-obafemi\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there trouble brewing with Obafemi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swans striker Michael Obafemi has removed all links to the club on his social media, namely Instagram, in the latest twist with the summer signing.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish international has a significant amount of images and videos from his time at Southampton, but it appears all Swansea related content on Instagram bas been deleted, in a move that suggests he is detaching himself from the club somewhat.<\/p>\n<p>Obafemi did not come off the bench in today&#8217;s 1-0 win against Preston, with Russell Martin preferring Kyle Joseph to replace Joel Piroe in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Martin refused to include the striker in the matchday squad earlier in the season due to issues with his timekeeping and application in training.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November, the Swans boss told Wales Online: \u201cMichael understands why he&#8217;s not in the squad, he agrees that he shouldn&#8217;t be in the squad, it&#8217;s nothing major.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are certain things you have to make sure you do to be in the squad. You have to behave every day like what you are, a professional footballer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s done nothing major but there&#8217;s stuff we need to help him with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s disappointed. I&#8217;m disappointed he&#8217;s not here, but performance doesn&#8217;t come before culture, it&#8217;s the other way around. He&#8217;ll get there and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be back involved soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just a few disciplinary things in terms of the way we train, time keeping and it does matter, unfortunately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like a corner had been turned after the player started against Southampton in the FA Cup and came off the bench to help the Swans draw at Huddersfield.<\/p>\n<p>But the latest news will lead to suggestions that Obafemi could be on his way out in the January window &#8211; with links of a loan deal away from the club surfacing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fansnetwork.co.uk\/football\/swanseacity\/news\/56720\/michael-obafemi-loan-inquiry-and-manchester-city-player-to-come-in-on-loan-\">Swans Independent recently.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The striker has scored just once since signing from Southampton in what has been a tough transition to the Championship &#8211; the question now is whether he will still be a Swan after January 31st?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swans striker Michael Obafemi has removed all links to the club on his social media, namely Instagram, in the latest twist with the summer signing. The Irish international has a significant amount of images and videos from his time at Southampton, but it appears all Swansea related content on Instagram bas been deleted, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,295],"tags":[657,608],"class_list":["post-53478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-transfer-rumours","tag-michael-obafemi","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53478","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\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}