{"id":69662,"date":"2022-09-18T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=69662"},"modified":"2022-09-18T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T09:19:21","slug":"obafemi-jeered-as-he-makes-his-return-but-martin-sees-the-positives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/09\/18\/obafemi-jeered-as-he-makes-his-return-but-martin-sees-the-positives\/","title":{"rendered":"Obafemi jeered as he makes his return but Martin sees the positives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Obafemi made his return to first team action yesterday after missing the last two fixtures and received a somewhat mixed reaction.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish international came on for Joel Piroe in the 88th minute to a considerable amount of booing from the East stand in particular but Russell Martin isn&#8217;t worried after seeing a committed player in training this week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='ow64RjQgTLZ9M6-0S75NLw' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1243296591' 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:'ow64RjQgTLZ9M6-0S75NLw',sig:'Dk7umc2er4TbE1NUJRfz8M9kW4zEZlgQgJltDglgyqU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1243296591',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Obafemi looked certain to leave for Burnley earlier this month before the transfer window closed but the two clubs couldn&#8217;t agree a deal with the Swans looking for an eight figure fee for the former Southampton man.<\/p>\n<p>Martin told the press post match: &#8220;It [crowd reaction] was mixed, some were really warm, a couple of people booing. People make what they want of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They just want people to come on and work as hard as possible. He did that when he came on and he&#8217;s done that this week in training. That&#8217;s all we want from him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully he&#8217;ll go away with Ireland and do well with them and he&#8217;ll come back as the Michael we know and love.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='gj2uK_iuRzd1UAJBqCVfTw' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1243299929' 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:'gj2uK_iuRzd1UAJBqCVfTw',sig:'gcEm-XAJD-csyve0n9kwpKTJhe3wx2LCmRVUQIgucww=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1243299929',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll be a big part for us, for sure. He&#8217;s got some real competition at the minute with Joel Piroe doing what he does. The competition is great for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week <a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/09\/15\/ireland-manager-defends-obafemi-against-martin\/\">Ireland boss Stephen Kenny said there were &#8220;2 or 3 sides to every story&#8221;<\/a> when discussing Obafemi&#8217;s lack of playing time, something which <a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/09\/16\/martin-hits-back-at-kenny-michael-needs-to-earn-the-trust-back\/\">Martin was quick to push back on.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Obafemi made his return to first team action yesterday after missing the last two fixtures and received a somewhat mixed reaction. The Irish international came on for Joel Piroe in the 88th minute to a considerable amount of booing from the East stand in particular but Russell Martin isn&#8217;t worried after seeing a committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":67538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,306],"tags":[657,636,665],"class_list":["post-69662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-reactions","tag-michael-obafemi","tag-russell-martin","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69662","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=69662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}