{"id":83759,"date":"2023-07-06T21:39:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=83759"},"modified":"2023-07-06T21:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:39:20","slug":"everton-striker-set-for-coventry-city-swans-miss-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/07\/06\/everton-striker-set-for-coventry-city-swans-miss-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton striker set for Coventry City &#8211; Swans miss out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been much speculation in SA1 over the past week that the Swans were set to make a move for Everton striker Ellis Simms with heavy suggestions that we were open to a swap deal involving Joel Piroe.<\/p>\n<p>Those chances appear to have ended now with reports this evening that Simms is in talks to join Coventry City and a deal is expected to be concluded over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Simms spent some time last season on loan at Sunderland and had also attracted interest from them and Ipswich over the past few weeks but it is Coventry &#8211; who look set to net a transfer profit on Gyokeres who is set for a move abroad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Everton striker Ellis Simms is in talks with Coventry City, A deal is expected to be agreed by the weekend. \ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2KEJiwYoBV\">pic.twitter.com\/2KEJiwYoBV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1677026278459809798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even yesterday the reports were that the Swans would consider a swap deal with Everton involving Piroe and Wales Online referenced that the Swans striker was &#8220;open&#8221; to that kind of deal although clearly that door appears to be closed now.\u00a0 \u00a0That does not of course prevent a separate deal with Everton who certainly interest Piroe although our belief is still that his destination will end up the City Ground and time with Steve Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>We await confirmation but as far as Ellis Simms is concerned this door appears to be shut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83760\" src=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Simms-Coventry-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Simms-Coventry-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Simms-Coventry-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Simms-Coventry-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Simms-Coventry-1-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Simms-Coventry-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Simms-Coventry-1-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Simms-Coventry-1-1068x601.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been much speculation in SA1 over the past week that the Swans were set to make a move for Everton striker Ellis Simms with heavy suggestions that we were open to a swap deal involving Joel Piroe. Those chances appear to have ended now with reports this evening that Simms is in talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[539,1530,1528,1509],"class_list":["post-83759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-coventry-city","tag-ellis-simms","tag-everton","tag-the-2023-2024-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83759","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}