{"id":83860,"date":"2023-07-16T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=83860"},"modified":"2023-07-15T17:45:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T16:45:03","slug":"is-whittaker-closing-in-on-plymouth-argyle-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/07\/16\/is-whittaker-closing-in-on-plymouth-argyle-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Whittaker closing in on Plymouth Argyle return?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Whittaker is another one of those players that looks set for a Swansea City exit this summer.\u00a0 \u00a0For many it is probably surprising that he is still here given the club&#8217;s clear desire to sell the player back in January.<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker has never really settled to a run of appearances here in Swansea with former Swans boss Russell Martin clearly not a fan and used the player very sparingly after the move away from SA1 failed to materialise in January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='GuCxC4GrRLJuLqUhZYLK7Q' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1244297089' 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:'GuCxC4GrRLJuLqUhZYLK7Q',sig:'ARpDXF6JXvCeVuzIG4-NH5kAuUCk9FGciT4VPr5WLaA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1244297089',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>It was reasonably obvious when we recalled him from what was a successful loan spell at Plymouth that we wanted to sell him on but we held firm on our pricing belief for the player despite moves from Rangers and he stayed at Swansea for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Interest from Ibrox resurfaced at the start of this window but that has cooled recently and that seems to have left the door open for Plymouth to take him back to Home Park as they prepare for their return to the Championship following promotion last season.<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker was not present in the Swans 5-0 win over Swindon yesterday which prompted increases in rumours that his departure from the club was imminent and that Plymouth seems to be the destination to which he heads.<\/p>\n<p>How much truth there is on that remains to be seen but what doesn&#8217;t seem in any doubt is that he will depart the Swansea.com this season and that we know Steven Schumacher is a fan which means Plymouth is an obvious &#8211; even if it is not a certain &#8211; destination.<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker himself appears as a man who does want to move on and with the arrival of Jerry Yates you would assume that &#8211; even if Piroe is sold &#8211; his game time is going to be limited and there has been more than one suggestion that the agreement has been made that he can leave as soon as the Swans valuation is met.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Plymouth have done that remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83859\" src=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Whittaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Whittaker.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Whittaker-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Whittaker-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Whittaker-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Whittaker-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Whittaker-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Whittaker-1068x601.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Whittaker is another one of those players that looks set for a Swansea City exit this summer.\u00a0 \u00a0For many it is probably surprising that he is still here given the club&#8217;s clear desire to sell the player back in January. Whittaker has never really settled to a run of appearances here in Swansea with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[363,669,1509],"class_list":["post-83860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-morgan-whittaker","tag-plymouth-argyle","tag-the-2023-2024-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83860","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=83860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}