{"id":50765,"date":"2026-04-17T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/zan-vipotnik-swansea-city-striker-says-playing-in-premier-league-is-his-goal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:36:05","slug":"zan-vipotnik-swansea-city-striker-says-playing-in-premier-league-is-his-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/zan-vipotnik-swansea-city-striker-says-playing-in-premier-league-is-his-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zan Vipotnik: Swansea City striker says playing in Premier League is his goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club recognised my work and also I recognised the project,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am happy here, my family is happy here, I like the club, I like the staff, so it was not a tough decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked about the possibility of transfer speculation Vipotnik added: &#8220;I am happy here but we will see in the summer what will happen. But I am happy here, my family is happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/swansea-city\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Swansea,<\/a> who are 14th, are on course for a fifth successive mid-table finish in the Championship as they prepare to host in-form Southampton on Saturday (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With new rules meaning the play-offs will involve clubs finishing from third to eighth in the division next season, Vipotnik says they must be on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/swansea-city\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Swansea&#8217;s<\/a> agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Long-term we speak about the Premier League \u2013 I have been here two years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But we need to set good goals at the start of next season that we can achieve. We cannot put the standards too high. Play-offs next season is a fair goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cje4pqqjj7jo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The club recognised my work and also I recognised the project,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am happy here, my family is happy here, I like the club, I like the staff, so it was not a tough decision.&#8221; Asked about the possibility of transfer speculation Vipotnik added: &#8220;I am happy here but we will see in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[297,2737,206,2170,205,2257,4518,14665,14664],"class_list":["post-50765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-city","tag-goal","tag-league","tag-playing","tag-premier","tag-striker","tag-swansea","tag-vipotnik","tag-zan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50767,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50765\/revisions\/50767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}