{"id":80752,"date":"2023-05-08T18:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=80752"},"modified":"2023-05-08T18:56:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:56:17","slug":"new-chairman-makes-decision-on-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/05\/08\/new-chairman-makes-decision-on-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chairman makes decision on Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Coleman has told Russell Martin that the ownership group want him to commit to a new contract at Swansea City as the Championship season comes to a close.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Wales Online journalist Phil Blanche on Twitter this afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Swansea chairman Andy Coleman has told Russell Martin the club&#39;s ownership group want to extend his contract. Martin has one-year left on his current deal \ud83e\udda2<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phil Blanche \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f (@philblanche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philblanche\/status\/1655624267227181075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A fantastic run of form saw the Swans just three points short of the top six following the exciting 3-2 win against West Brom this afternoon &#8211; an improvement of five points compared to last season.<\/p>\n<p>And with Martin closing in on the final twelve months of his three year contract there has been much speculation in recent days that Leicester City are monitoring the situation should the worst happen and they get relegated from the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting matter will be whether Coleman&#8217;s desire to secure Martin to a new deal will be matched by the manager. All snippets have suggested he will but one would suspect it would depend on a number of factors.<\/p>\n<p>The support offered this summer in transfer window spending will be a key discussion point as will the expectations for the forthcoming campaign &#8211; which will surely be a more serious push for promotion?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sure to be an interesting summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Coleman has told Russell Martin that the ownership group want him to commit to a new contract at Swansea City as the Championship season comes to a close. That&#8217;s according to Wales Online journalist Phil Blanche on Twitter this afternoon. New Swansea chairman Andy Coleman has told Russell Martin the club&#39;s ownership group want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":74405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,296],"tags":[1505,636,665],"class_list":["post-80752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-transfer-news","tag-andy-coleman","tag-russell-martin","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80752","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=80752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}