{"id":17946,"date":"2017-11-10T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=17946"},"modified":"2017-11-10T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:58:36","slug":"crystal-palace-boss-dismisses-links-to-arsenal-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/crystal-palace-boss-dismisses-links-to-arsenal-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace boss dismisses links to Arsenal midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Roy Hodgson has downplayed rumours circulating in the press that Crystal Palace will attempt to sign Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere on loan in January.<\/h3>\n<p>Wilshere, who was a key figure in Hodgson&#8217;s England side during the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign, almost completed a loan move to Selhurst Park in the summer of 2016 before opting to spend the season at Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>The 25 year old has struggled to break into Arsenal&#8217;s team this season, with his only Premier League appearances coming from the bench.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I work with Dougie Freedman and we talk about potential players and Jack Wilshere\u2019s name has never been mentioned&#8221; said Hodgson.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We haven\u2019t discussed Jack Wilshere. I like him and I think he is a very good player. There may come a time at Crystal Palace where Jack Wilshere would be just the player we are looking for, but I can\u2019t tell you that is the case at the moment, and he might not be available etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2017\/11\/08\/jack-wilshere-wanted-crystal-palace-roy-hodgson\/\">The Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>first linked Wilshere to Palace after Southgate said that Wilshere would only be called up if he was playing regularly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knows the quality Jack has,\u201d England manager Gareth Southgate\u00a0said. \u201cBut he\u2019s got to be playing regularly. He has the quality to play at highest level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Reuben Pinder |\u00a0<strong>Subbing:\u00a0<\/strong>Nikolay Kolev<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Hodgson has downplayed rumours circulating in the press that Crystal Palace will attempt to sign Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere on loan in January. Wilshere, who was a key figure in Hodgson&#8217;s England side during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}