{"id":617431,"date":"2022-09-01T16:49:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T20:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617431"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T20:58:56","slug":"swansea-city-duo-joel-piroe-michael-obafemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/swansea-city-duo-joel-piroe-michael-obafemi\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City Vital Goalscoring Duo Not for Sale Amidst Leeds United Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only three teams are currently below Swansea City in the Championship standings. It has been a rough start to the season for Russell Martin\u2019s men, and losing either of their front two would make matters worse. This is very unlikely though, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanMitchelmore\/status\/1565417353357279235\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Mitchelmore<\/a> reporting that Swansea City duo Michael Obafemi and Joel Piroe will remain at the Liberty Stadium.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Swansea City Duo Staying Put <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>A Tough Start to the Season for Swansea City<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Swansea remain determined to keep hold of Michael Obafemi and Joel Piroe. Leeds made an approach for Piroe but that&#39;s it for now. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#lufc<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Could yet be a loan signing in before tonight&#39;s 11pm deadline too. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Swans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Swans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeadlineDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DeadlineDay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Mitchelmore (@IanMitchelmore) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanMitchelmore\/status\/1565417353357279235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/30\/10-european-teams-to-watch\/\" target=\"_self\">Coventry City<\/a> have had issues with their pitch and so have played less games, making their positioning at the foot of the table more understandable. But, Swansea City sitting just one point above the relegation zone, no matter how early it is in the season, isn\u2019t what Swans fans would have expected. There are evident teething problems in the early stages of Russell Martins\u2019 reign.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the Jacks&#8217; last four goals in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/30\/top-championship-transfers-this-summer\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a> have come from either Michael Obafemi or Joel Piroe. The latter was on target at the weekend away at Stoke City only for yet another goal to break their hearts. It was Tyrese Campbell, son of Kevin, who turned three points into one for Swansea City. Rewinding to a couple of weeks ago, two own goals after the 90<sup>th<\/sup> minute saw the Welsh side again throw away a pair of points.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Piroe and Obafemi and it was the former who had the highest profile suitor. The Dutch forward had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsallover.com\/contrasting-reports-emerge-as-leeds-united-consider-fresh-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leeds United of the Premier League keeping tabs on him<\/a> as well as Watford previously. Meanwhile it was newly relegated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/joel-piroe-michael-obafemi-latest-24909957\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burnley who were hot on the heels of Obafemi<\/a> as they begin their Vincent Kompany revolution, but \u201cSwansea remain determined to keep hold of Michael Obafemi and Joel Piroe\u201d according to Mitchelmore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/21\/swansea-city-forward-plymouth-argyle-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Swansea City Forward Makes the Move to Plymouth Argyle on Loan<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Leeds United and Co. Not Done Yet<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The biggest story regarding Leeds United at the moment does not have Swansea City man Joel Piroe at the heart of it. It is instead all about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1565379887816376325\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marseille man Bamba Dieng<\/a>, whose move to Elland Road was all but done. At the eleventh hour, Nice swooped in and now the Senegalese international is thinking over his options.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/11\/leicester-city-midfielder-hamza-choudhury-watford\/\" target=\"_self\">Watford<\/a> and Burnley are two sides who haven\u2019t exactly been quite over the last week or so either. The Clarets have been putting out excellent announcement video after excellent announcement video whereas the Hornets have been more focused on hanging on to players. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/13\/nottingham-forest-nigeria-forward-watford\/\" target=\"_self\">Emmanuel Dennis<\/a> may have gone but <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/16\/watford-joao-pedro-newcastle-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Joao Pedro<\/a> is here to stay and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/14\/aston-villa-forward-keinan-davis-watford\/\" target=\"_self\">Keinan Davis<\/a> was loaned in from Aston Villa for the season ahead.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelobafemi_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@michaelobafemi_<\/a> has been nominated for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyBetChamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SkyBetChamp<\/a> player of the month award for March.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2SftapRTlh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/2SftapRTlh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3zJ1qwMJpy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3zJ1qwMJpy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Swansea City AFC (@SwansOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwansOfficial\/status\/1512001762487590915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only three teams are currently below Swansea City in the Championship standings. It has been a rough start to the season for Russell Martin\u2019s men, and losing either of their front two would make matters worse. This is very unlikely though, Ian Mitchelmore reporting that Swansea City duo Michael Obafemi and Joel Piroe will remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":617445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[23,10,33,6443,7188,25],"tags":[9389,7804,7465],"class_list":["post-617431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swansea","category-burnley","category-championship","category-leeds-united","category-rumours","category-watford","tag-leeds-united-transfer-rumours","tag-swansea-city-transfer-news","tag-watford-transfer-news"],"modified_by":"Declan Wiseman, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617431","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\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}