{"id":180101,"date":"2018-07-12T05:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=180101"},"modified":"2018-07-12T05:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T09:48:20","slug":"kenedy-re-joins-newcastle-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2018\/07\/12\/kenedy-re-joins-newcastle-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenedy Re-joins Newcastle On Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/newcastle-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newcastle<\/a> have completed the signing of Brazillian midfielder Kenedy. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/chelseafootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a> academy graduate rejoins the Geordies having been involved in a similar arrangement last season. The 22-year-old played 13 times for Newcastle last season, contributing two goals and two assists to help his side to a comfortable 10th placed finish, following their promotion from the Championship.<\/p>\n<h1>Newcastle\u00a0Re-sign Kenedy On Loan<\/h1>\n<h2>Style of Play<\/h2>\n<p>Kenedy is a versatile player. Last season he played in midfield, attacking midfield and defensive midfield. While playing for his parent club Chelsea, the Brazillian has also been deployed as a left back. This versatility will be extremely useful for manager Rafael Benitez. Newcastle do not have the financial muscle that clubs around them possess, so a player who can play a variety of roles will be of great help. Kenedy is also a difference-maker. He is not afraid to shoot from distance and coupled with his dribbling ability, he will likely be one of the star players for the northern side.<\/p>\n<h2>Does Kenedy Have a Future at Chelsea?<\/h2>\n<p>Chelsea have a very bad reputation for developing youth players. Despite their success in youth competitions, very few players make the step up from the academy to the Chelsea first team.<\/p>\n<p>Kenedy has impressed when played in the Premier League. If any Chelsea youngster is going to make the cut, it is likely to be him. He&#8217;ll be 23-years-old when he returns to Chelsea and it&#8217;ll likely be a case of now or never. Last Summer, Kenedy posted a video while on Chelsea&#8217;s pre-season tour in China. Many believed this video to be racist and the Brazilian was forced to apologise. This may have held his Chelsea career back a bit. At the very least, Kenedy is likely to forge a Premier League career for himself, but it may not be at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"--Wv1FV3QS9uJSIz7IPokA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/996890004\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" 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:'--Wv1FV3QS9uJSIz7IPokA',sig:'2VqDjd0OLZiADen5Fht3TBjnmmbacq_OAJZbYJwTzkQ=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'996890004',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle have completed the signing of Brazillian midfielder Kenedy. The Chelsea academy graduate rejoins the Geordies having been involved in a similar arrangement last season. The 22-year-old played 13 times for Newcastle last season, contributing two goals and two assists to help his side to a comfortable 10th placed finish, following their promotion from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2263,"featured_media":184189,"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":[3,11,1267,30],"tags":[46,2462,1993,40,136],"class_list":["post-180101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-newcastle-united","category-news","tag-chelsea","tag-kennedy","tag-newcastle","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180101","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\/2263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}