{"id":67690,"date":"2022-08-10T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=67690"},"modified":"2022-08-10T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:54:02","slug":"first-team-midfielder-to-leave-for-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/08\/10\/first-team-midfielder-to-leave-for-france\/","title":{"rendered":"First team midfielder to leave for France?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivier Ntcham is interesting a number of French clubs after failing to nail down a first team spot at Swansea.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder joined to much fanfare on a free transfer from Celtic last summer but has often flattered to deceive with his first season at the club blighted by fitness issues.<\/p>\n<p>You could say that Russell Martin hasn&#8217;t quite established where he believes he is best suited with Ntcham sometimes playing on the left side and rarely in attacking midfield &#8211; supposedly his best role &#8211; when chasing games.<\/p>\n<p>He would undoubtedly be on a reasonable wage at the club and with the likes of AJ Ajaccio and Guingamp interested in his signature it wouldn&#8217;t be unreasonable to see him move back to his native France.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Mail reporter David Kent suggests the club are only interested in a loan deal rather than cashing in on Ntcham who is still only 26 years of age and has two years remaining on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>One to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivier Ntcham is interesting a number of French clubs after failing to nail down a first team spot at Swansea. The midfielder joined to much fanfare on a free transfer from Celtic last summer but has often flattered to deceive with his first season at the club blighted by fitness issues. You could say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":67501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,295],"tags":[1433,1434,804,665],"class_list":["post-67690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-transfer-rumours","tag-aj-ajaccio","tag-guingamp","tag-olivier-ntcham","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67690","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=67690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}