{"id":66397,"date":"2022-07-14T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=66397"},"modified":"2022-07-14T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:03:04","slug":"leeds-united-the-latest-to-be-linked-with-swans-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/07\/14\/leeds-united-the-latest-to-be-linked-with-swans-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United the latest to be linked with Swans striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United are the latest team to be credited with interest in Swans striker Joel Piroe after speculation on social media that the Whites are considering a \u00a320m bid for the Dutchman.<\/p>\n<p>First it was Leicester &#8211; although there seems there was little interest there &#8211; then it was Watford and now it&#8217;s Leeds who are linked with the 22 year old who scored 24 goals in his debut season in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>It was an undoubtedly special campaign for Piroe who surpassed all expectations with his clinical finishing from distance proving his quality. Indeed he couldn&#8217;t be classed as the typical &#8220;fox in the box&#8221; striker like Michael Obafemi for example.<\/p>\n<p>That is why Russell Martin trusted him slightly deeper than the main striker in the second half of last season with his two goals against champions Fulham proving his ability to deliver from deep &#8211; see below for his goals last season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VGWKHkmQT9k\">Jo\u00ebl Piroe | Every Goal | 2021-22 &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether this interest from Leeds is genuine is yet to be seen as they also seem to be pursuing Belgian international frontman Charles de Ketelaere for a reportted fee of \u00a330m along with Juan Mata after his release from Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>It has been made clear in recent days that it would take a fee of \u00a320m to land Piroe after the sale of Flynn Downes to West Ham for a fee rising to \u00a314m.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='BWimA7w4T9R3RK3ZtiN6YQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1240178526' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'BWimA7w4T9R3RK3ZtiN6YQ',sig:'Nvc-FpbEKs7-nKrkOeq2FYRS1Gaozn2p0EonGjV-vHM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1240178526',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The Swans boss Russell Martin delivered that message loud and clear with the club in a <a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/07\/13\/martin-club-in-strong-position-after-downes-sale\/\">reasonable position should no further stars be sold this summer but only time will tell whether Piroe will be in the squad come the end of August.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United are the latest team to be credited with interest in Swans striker Joel Piroe after speculation on social media that the Whites are considering a \u00a320m bid for the Dutchman. First it was Leicester &#8211; although there seems there was little interest there &#8211; then it was Watford and now it&#8217;s Leeds who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":62970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,295],"tags":[613,712,1421,665],"class_list":["post-66397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-transfer-rumours","tag-joel-piroe","tag-leeds-united","tag-swans","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66397","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=66397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}