{"id":146014,"date":"2018-06-08T05:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T09:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=146014"},"modified":"2020-12-21T19:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:28:49","slug":"jonny-evans-joins-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2018\/06\/08\/jonny-evans-joins-leicester\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Evans joins Leicester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City have confirmed the signing of West Brom captain Jonny Evans. The centre-back joins the Foxes after they met his \u00a33.5million relegation release clause.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old spent three years at the Hawthorns after joining in 2015. Previously, he spent nine years at Manchester United. With 28 league appearances this season, he scored twice and has been capped 70 times for Northern Ireland. Off the pitch, he was criticised for his role in the theft of a taxi on a mid-season training camp in Spain.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How he fits in<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Evans is Leicester\u2019s second defensive signing of the summer, joining right back Ricardo Pereira. <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/05\/21\/leicester-city-claude-puels-club-at-a-crossroads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Foxes struggled defensively last season<\/a>, conceding the fifth most league goals. Captain Wes Morgan\u2019s form dropped significantly during the season and Claude Puel will likely see Evans as his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, Puel could use Evans alongside Wes Morgan and Leicester\u2019s Player of the Season Harry Maguire as part of a new back three. This, however, seems unlikely, given all three\u2019s lack of pace.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LCFC\/status\/1005011911438684160<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Where this leaves West Brom<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Further departures are forthcoming, with Salomon Rondon linked with several Premier League clubs while Sean Dyche reportedly wants Jay Rodriguez back at Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss of Evans West Brom still have good experience throughout their squad; Darren Moore will hope to persuade key players to remain as they aim to return to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Main image credit:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"eiiveKejQkhj_APFpt0xsw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/919673028\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'eiiveKejQkhj_APFpt0xsw',sig:'XGji9CzkqyzhWxYaBiv-QY1y8DjkTTiYt3NGWq231_8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'919673028',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City have confirmed the signing of West Brom captain Jonny Evans. The centre-back joins the Foxes after they met his \u00a33.5million relegation release clause. The 30-year-old spent three years at the Hawthorns after joining in 2015. Previously, he spent nine years at Manchester United. With 28 league appearances this season, he scored twice and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2600,"featured_media":147934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[28,2,15,3],"tags":[1297,173,40,644],"class_list":["post-146014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-featured","category-leicester-city","category-premier-league","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-leicester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-west-brom"],"modified_by":"Shiven Mohindra","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146014","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\/2600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}