{"id":1983,"date":"2013-09-18T14:47:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2013-09-18T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:55:16","slug":"barker-no-to-bent-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"BARKER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c NO TO BENT DEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Albion manager, Jade Barker&#8217;s summer recruitment drive took an unexpected twist. Whilst Barker was scouting at the Fulham v West Brom Premiership clash, discussions took place over the possible loan transfer of England International, Darren Bent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1984\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bent.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1984\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1984\" title=\"Bent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bent-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bent-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bent.jpg 823w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bent &#8211; Not suitable, too many goals for Barker&#8217;s &#8220;Little Princess Diary&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Astonishingly, Barker has decided against signing the Fulham striker, stating, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 20\/30 goal a season striker and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to elaborate, Barker offered the following answer, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Before the season started, I filled in a goal scoring chart in my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Little Princess Diary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Looking at recent records, I allowed 10 columns to complete this season&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0goal entries. This is all completed and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t possibly change it at this late stage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing the news of the potential new signing, semi-retired Albion veteran Dave McPhee immediately announced himself \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fit and ready\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to play this season. \u00c2\u00a0McPhee commented, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I heard we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re signing some bent guy up front. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m fit, ready and willing! I can make the football too.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, Albion manager, Jade Barker&#8217;s summer recruitment drive took an unexpected twist. Whilst Barker was scouting at the Fulham v West Brom Premiership clash, discussions took place over the possible loan transfer of England International, Darren Bent. Astonishingly, Barker has decided against signing the Fulham striker, stating, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 20\/30 goal a season striker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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\/1983"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albionfc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}