{"id":1417,"date":"2012-01-16T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:12:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:12:48","slug":"barker-set-for-dramatic-playing-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"BARKER SET FOR DRAMATIC PLAYING COMEBACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_161\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/JadeBarker.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-161\" title=\"JadeBarker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/JadeBarker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barker: Locked in talks with himself<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Albion manager Jade Barker could be on the verge of a sensational playing return as the club seeks to deal with its annual skiing season player crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Barker had retired from Albion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s active playing roster last season, but Barker has opened the door for himself to make a dramatic comeback to help out during the player shortage. Sources inside the club said that Barker was set for showdown talks with himself to try and thrash out a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Barker has moved in recent years to rejuvenate the squad by bringing in younger players, but in a conversation with himself late last night it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s understood that he talked himself round to the idea that a short term deal would be beneficial to both manager and player.<\/p>\n<p>The main stumbling block was a disagreement as to Barker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best position. Barker had felt he was a superior option in every position to any of the current playing staff. However, Barker has now accepted that he can realistically only fill one role and that other players have to continue to feature in the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albion manager Jade Barker could be on the verge of a sensational playing return as the club seeks to deal with its annual skiing season player crisis. Barker had retired from Albion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s active playing roster last season, but Barker has opened the door for himself to make a dramatic comeback to help out during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}