{"id":434387,"date":"2019-06-07T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=434387"},"modified":"2019-06-07T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T14:24:24","slug":"dan-james-moves-from-swansea-city-to-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/06\/07\/dan-james-moves-from-swansea-city-to-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan James Moves From Swansea City to Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/manchesterunitedfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a> have signed winger Dan James from Championship side <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/swansea-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Swansea City<\/a> for \u00a315 million.<\/p>\n<h1>Manchester United Sign Dan James From Swansea City<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We&#8217;re delighted to have agreed terms, in principle, with Swansea City for the transfer of Daniel James to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MUFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further details will be revealed in due course.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester United (@ManUtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManUtd\/status\/1136997601570672642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Career So Far<\/h2>\n<p>James, 21, broke into the Swansea squad in 2016 but this is his first season of regular football after a loan move to Shrewsbury Town didn&#8217;t go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster has been almost ever-present in the Swans team this season, although his first goal didn&#8217;t come until November when he bagged the solitary strike in a 4-1 loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/norwich-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norwich City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James really came to prominence earlier in 2019 when he displayed lightning quick pace to score against Brentford in the FA Cup, a game his side went on to win 4-1. He then made his debut for the senior Wales side in March and scored the only goal in their 1-0 win against Slovakia in their European Championships Qualifying group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Who&#8217;d win a race between Daniel James and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9? ??<\/p>\n<p>There was no stopping the 21-year-old on his way to goal.<\/p>\n<p>Incredible pace! \u26a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ay2aTunUVT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Ay2aTunUVT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btsportfootball\/status\/1097191914892337153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>What This Means For the Future<\/h2>\n<p>James is seen as a hot prospect in the football world and he becomes the first signing of the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer era at Old Trafford. It&#8217;s a far cry from the &#8216;superstar&#8217; signings of Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez, but perhaps it&#8217;s all part of Solskjaer&#8217;s vision for Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>For James, the move will only work if he is given sufficient playing time. United have a recent history of acquiring these youngsters and not giving them the appearances needed to forge a successful career. Wilfried Zaha got lucky that he was able to go back to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crystal Palace<\/a> unscathed, but you only need to look at Nick Powell&#8217;s seasons in the Championship and League One to see where James could end up.<\/p>\n<p>That was the old regime though. This is Solskjaer&#8217;s first signing, but more in a similar vein will give a clearer idea of the Norweigan&#8217;s plans for James.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ax1gD6rmR2JiZM7ti7k8-g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1066180584\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ax1gD6rmR2JiZM7ti7k8-g',sig:'r9R1QlqIjfkOt1wrR3eknkPu5t_aAMvdGkGpuuOwmOw=',w:'594px',h:'427px',items:'1066180584',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have signed winger Dan James from Championship side Swansea City for \u00a315 million. Manchester United Sign Dan James From Swansea City &nbsp; We&#8217;re delighted to have agreed terms, in principle, with Swansea City for the transfer of Daniel James to #MUFC. Further details will be revealed in due course. \u2014 Manchester United (@ManUtd) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":434417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,2,18,30,3,23],"tags":[197,3714,36,40,394,136],"class_list":["post-434387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-featured","category-manchester-united","category-news","category-premier-league","category-swansea","tag-championship","tag-dan-james","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-swansea-city","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}