{"id":82752,"date":"2023-06-18T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=82752"},"modified":"2023-06-17T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T19:39:56","slug":"swansea-city-heading-to-spain-to-start-pre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/06\/18\/swansea-city-heading-to-spain-to-start-pre-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City heading to Spain to start pre-season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming Friday (23rd June) sees the players return from their close season break to start their pre-season training ahead of the new season start at the beginning of August.<\/p>\n<p>Most of that post-season has been dominated by the long running saga that has been the position of the manager and the players will be as much in the dark as the rest of us as to when that may actually end and we can move on properly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='Ucm13sNMRqJsq1TMRnJilg' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1253158895' 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:'Ucm13sNMRqJsq1TMRnJilg',sig:'ouTobuJBULz6caHYis3wT52zP4YIvwbiVhY33oT4seQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1253158895',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The early stages of pre-season is largely about conditioning as much as anything else and whilst the first day of training will take place with the players reporting to Fairwood they will head off to Spain a week today for a week.<\/p>\n<p>The question for many of us is who will be present with the squad to take that pre-season trip as it seems inconceivable that Martin or any of the four he wants to take with him will make the trip and it seems unlikely that a new man will be in place as early as this time next week.\u00a0 \u00a0But then again it seemed unconceivable that this would still be dragging its heels four weeks after the whole affair started.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans pre-season schedule of games kicks off on 21st July when they travel to Oxford with further games planned at home to Bristol Rovers (25th July) and away at Reading on 29th of the same month.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the presence of a manager for these early days of pre-season is not essential, the lack of one doesn&#8217;t help a situation with these early days being ideal chances to take a look at the squad, particularly in the instance of a new manager and, let&#8217;s face it, we have had plenty of chance to resolve that situation already.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the players have already been back at the club doing some light training but in the case of the vast majority Friday will be their first day back.<\/p>\n<p>The EFL fixture list for the new season is released this coming Thursday (23rd) at 9am.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='3Pm1P7j2QTplXNZCiD035A' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242884192' 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:'3Pm1P7j2QTplXNZCiD035A',sig:'cWVsxzooKFKEwPLUXHzkIjgWBKpOeE9Xtlk7qRJ6ilo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242884192',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>This coming Friday (23rd June) sees the players return from their close season break to start their pre-season training ahead of the new season start at the beginning of August. 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