{"id":75863,"date":"2023-01-29T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T08:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=75863"},"modified":"2023-01-29T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T08:19:11","slug":"as-whittaker-nears-exit-then-what-next-for-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/01\/29\/as-whittaker-nears-exit-then-what-next-for-swans\/","title":{"rendered":"As Whittaker nears exit then what next for Swans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s news that Morgan Whittaker was nearing the exit door at the Swansea.com stadium gave Swans&#8217; fans everywhere the next question which is about what does the club do next.<\/p>\n<p>We are less than three days from the end of the window and to date there has been no fresh incomings into the club during the window.\u00a0 \u00a0 As well as Whittaker, Obafemi looks set to be on his way at some stage in the next 24 hours leaving the Swans definitely one, depending how you view it, two strikers down so far in the window.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='yEY9zFe0TWh1eokAWZ2qYA' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1235894020' 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:'yEY9zFe0TWh1eokAWZ2qYA',sig:'niXwOLFl9d3aQgl7aP1FHEFyZsF3_F8B423I4Lz51cc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1235894020',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>On the face of it we aren&#8217;t in a worse position to the last month or so.\u00a0 Obafemi has had his sulk on since the World Cup and Whittaker was seemingly only ever bought back to sell.\u00a0 \u00a0For whatever reason it appeared that he was a player that Martin did not want and seemed reasonably clear from day one that his recall from Plymouth was going to be nothing more than a temporary measure.<\/p>\n<p>The problem we now face is that we need to make moves in the window.\u00a0 \u00a0For months we have heard the hierarchy at the club talk about &#8220;planning&#8221; going into every window but, to most of us, right now it seems that we are facing the last 48 hours with no (obvious) progress towards what we are going to do next.<\/p>\n<p>To make this clear I do not believe for one minute that right now there are panic meetings determining what we are about to do but it tells us quite clearly that the only way we were reinforcing in the January window was after we were moving clubs on.\u00a0 As was stated back in the summer our painstaking way of pointing that out cost us in the summer and possibly continues to cost us now.<\/p>\n<p>The links with Ashley Barnes and Harry Cornick are there.\u00a0 \u00a0There are links with some loan players but, and let&#8217;s be honest here, does any of the names linked stand out as a player that can take us from our comfortable mid table position to challenging for the play-offs in one of the weakest Championship divisions for many a year.<\/p>\n<p>The next 2-3 days will be a critical period for Russell Martin and his staff and he simply has to ensure that Marsh, Winter and Silverstein are with him on what he wants to deliver.\u00a0 The manager stands by the results he is given on the field but it&#8217;s as obvious to everyone in SA1 that we need new players in this squad so now is the time to make those happen.<\/p>\n<p>I do still firmly believe that we will have new recruits by Tuesday evening, I will judge beyond that whether they are what we needed.<\/p>\n<p>And when that is done, the quality of the planning and preparation that has been several months in the making will be clear to us all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='Er6TyjTSR_xJYOcCwuSUaQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1245726182' 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:'Er6TyjTSR_xJYOcCwuSUaQ',sig:'0qjBTOVe9ZBXB1epBZTaqF2mYDoNOEaUq_dkmOOY0rE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1245726182',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s news that Morgan Whittaker was nearing the exit door at the Swansea.com stadium gave Swans&#8217; fans everywhere the next question which is about what does the club do next. 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