{"id":7373,"date":"2008-05-21T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=7373"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"swans-rumoured-interest-in-southend-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2008\/05\/21\/swans-rumoured-interest-in-southend-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans Rumoured Interest In Southend Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vital Football Southend site reports that it was &quot;shocked&quot; to learn of the interest and says that the Swans are keen to push through a deal with a large signing on fee and bring Gower to Swansea.<\/p>\n<p>Gower made 42 league appearances for the Shrimpers last season and also appeared in both legs of their semi final play off defeat to Doncaster and &#8211; maybe more importantly for the Swans &#8211; he grabbed 9 goals prompting Swans fans to believe that the move could be as a potential replacement for Andy Robinson who continues to mull over a reported offer from Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>Gower joined Southend back in 2003 from Barnet and was an integeral part of the side that won successive promotions in 2004\/5 and 2005\/6.&nbsp;&nbsp; He also scored 8 league goals in 2006\/7 as Southend battled unsuccessfully against relegation from the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands at the moment there is nothing in these discussions other than a rumour albeit one that potentially could have more credibility than some of the other silly season rumours to date.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vital Football Southend site reports that it was &quot;shocked&quot; to learn of the interest and says that the Swans are keen to push through a deal with a large signing on fee and bring Gower to Swansea. Gower made 42 league appearances for the Shrimpers last season and also appeared in both legs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373","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\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}