{"id":85236,"date":"2023-09-01T18:40:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=85236"},"modified":"2023-09-01T18:40:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:40:21","slug":"have-the-swans-bid-3m-for-blackburn-midfielder-to-pip-sheffield-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/09\/01\/have-the-swans-bid-3m-for-blackburn-midfielder-to-pip-sheffield-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Have the Swans bid \u00a33m for Blackburn midfielder to pip Sheffield Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports in Sheffield are suggesting that the Swans have bid \u00a33m for midfielder John Buckley as a busy day of transfer activity in SA1 continues.<\/p>\n<p>The reports suggest that the Swans are the only side to have made a formal move for the midfielder with a bid to land him on a permanent deal.<\/p>\n<p>The report in the Sheffield Star reads &#8220;The Owls were keen to bring Buckley to Hillsborough on loan, and it had been claimed earlier in the day that the 23-year-old was open to the prospect of a move to South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, any hopes of a deal appear to be over after Swansea launched a \u00a33 million bid for Buckley, with that proposal said to be the first formal offer made by any club for the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Millwall, Sunderland, Hull City and Aberdeen were also reportedly keen on Buckley, but it now seems that the Swans are in pole position to land his signature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Buckley came through the Blackburn academy, and he had been a regular in the first team in recent years, but he has fallen out of favour this season, making just one substitute appearance in the league.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder scored twice in Blackburn&#8217;s 8-0 midweek win over Harrogate in the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports in Sheffield are suggesting that the Swans have bid \u00a33m for midfielder John Buckley as a busy day of transfer activity in SA1 continues. The reports suggest that the Swans are the only side to have made a formal move for the midfielder with a bid to land him on a permanent deal. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":85235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[1575,1509],"class_list":["post-85236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-john-buckley","tag-the-2023-2024-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85236","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\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}