{"id":7960,"date":"2001-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"stu-back-but-for-how-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2001\/06\/30\/stu-back-but-for-how-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Stu Back But For How Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&#8220;I am still listening to offers at the moment,&#8221; said Roberts, Swansea&#8217;s player of the year last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen, but I don&#8217;t expect anything to be settled until the end of next week. The picture should be a little clearer then.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I will be down at the Vetch on Monday morning with the rest of the lads for the start of pre-season training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roberts has always said he would like to stay with Swansea but is not thought to be happy with the new contract offered to him this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The promising Welsh Under-21 international has most recently attracted attention from Premiership Charlton and Stoke City &#8211; the latest in a long list of clubs linked with the young Swan.<\/p>\n<p>Should Roberts move, Stoke are the current favourites to clinch his signature, especially with midfielder Graham Kavanagh expected to join Cardiff City today.<\/p>\n<p>Despite him being out of contract, Swansea could command a fee for Roberts because he is under the age of 24.<\/p>\n<p>He cannot leave under the Bosman ruling and any new club would have to agree to pay compensation to Swansea.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/swanseacity.rivals.net\/default.asp?sid=971&#038;p=2&#038;stid=8021717\">Falling On Deaf Ears<\/a> |<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerfreestone.com\/\">RogerFreestone.Com<\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/swanseacity.rivals.net\/default.asp?sid=971&#038;p=2&#038;stid=8122434\">Site Directory <\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am still listening to offers at the moment,&#8221; said Roberts, Swansea&#8217;s player of the year last season. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen, but I don&#8217;t expect anything to be settled until the end of next week. The picture should be a little clearer then. &#8220;But I will be down at the Vetch [&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-7960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960","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=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}