{"id":85153,"date":"2023-08-27T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=85153"},"modified":"2023-08-27T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T06:47:03","slug":"aston-villa-forward-to-have-swansea-medical-swans-close-in-on-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/08\/27\/aston-villa-forward-to-have-swansea-medical-swans-close-in-on-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa forward set for Swansea medical &#8211; Swans close in on Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans appear to be closing in on the deal that will see Keinan Davis join the Swans ahead of Hull City as he is believed to be undergoing a medical at the club today.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans made Davis their key priority as soon as the deal to take Joel Piroe to Leeds United started to unfold last week and they have moved quickly to fill the gap left by Piroe&#8217;s departure by looking to secure the deal for Davis within days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='HwLEhbbPQCNfYVCKwLLP0A' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1473723334' 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:'HwLEhbbPQCNfYVCKwLLP0A',sig:'FTcVtECM8BhaJatWfd-O-IAsHblmTrRj8WN2cXs7KJQ=',w:'594px',h:'409px',items:'1473723334',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>This time last week the player looked as if he was set for a move to Hull City but there were some complications and the Swans have taken advantage for that and now look like the victors in what was a two horse race.<\/p>\n<p>Davis scored 7 goals on loan at Watford last season in 27 starts having been part of the Nottingham Forest side that won promotion from the Championship the season before.\u00a0 \u00a0It was during that loan spell that former Forest striker Kevin Campbell enthused about the striker by saying \u201cKeinan Davis could make a real difference. He needs more game time to develop but he\u2019s a real handful. He is big, strong and fast. It might take him time to find his feet on the goalscoring front, but I like him. He has a bright future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big, strong and fast will be words that certainly appeal to Swans fans and whilst the track record of Davis may not be one that stands out at any level he is the kind of player who just may need a home that suits him.\u00a0 \u00a0For our sake we hope that is Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how the medical goes but this feels like it is reaching a conclusion!<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='IfHO2O-WTghwRafvNRjWkw' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1473556467' 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:'IfHO2O-WTghwRafvNRjWkw',sig:'lSg_fLeJ3g0miMe1N-Y_ZDIuPmR_v07m55h-Ij0AKZI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1473556467',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>The Swans appear to be closing in on the deal that will see Keinan Davis join the Swans ahead of Hull City as he is believed to be undergoing a medical at the club today. The Swans made Davis their key priority as soon as the deal to take Joel Piroe to Leeds United started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[732,1563,1509],"class_list":["post-85153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-aston-villa","tag-keinan-davis","tag-the-2023-2024-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85153","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=85153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}