{"id":439795,"date":"2019-05-18T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=439795"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:33:56","slug":"bournemouth-complete-signing-of-lloyd-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/05\/18\/bournemouth-complete-signing-of-lloyd-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth Complete Signing of Lloyd Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bournemouth have completed the signing of Bristol City left-back Lloyd Kelly on a long-term contract. Kelly, 20, joins for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<h1>Lloyd Kelly Joins Bournemouth<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to the club, Lloyd Kelly! ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/afcb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#afcb<\/a> ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q2YDzghheN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Q2YDzghheN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFC Bournemouth (@afcbournemouth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afcbournemouth\/status\/1129737147877974016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Undoubted Talent<\/h2>\n<p>The England U21 international is competent at either left-back or centre-back and looks to be the long-term replacement for club stalwart Charlie Daniels, who is set to miss the start of next season through injury.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Tyrone Mings has also spent the second half of this season on loan at Championship side Aston Villa. The Villains are to contest the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/05\/17\/efl-play-offs-shown-how-good-football-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Championship play-off final<\/a> against Derby County for a place in the Premier League. If they are successful, they may look to make the Mings deal permanent to compete in the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly made his debut for Bristol City in 2017 after coming through the ranks at Ashton Gate. He made a total of 48 appearances for the club, scoring on two occasions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he has three appearances in the England youth set-up following in debut in November.<\/p>\n<h2>What They Said<\/h2>\n<p>Upon signing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afcb.co.uk\/news\/first-team\/kelly-signs-for-cherries\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kelly told the Bournemouth website<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s a fantastic club. The move has come around quite quickly, but I&#8217;m happy to be here and can&#8217;t wait to start playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Premier League football is what I&#8217;ve always wanted to achieve. I want to play as many games as possible and I feel like this is the right place for me to try and do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cherries manager Eddie Howe said: &#8220;Lloyd is an exciting talent and a player of real potential, while at the same time already possessing good experience for someone so young.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is athletic, versatile, physically excellent and has a very bright future ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m delighted that we have been able to strike so early in the summer and look forward to working with Lloyd during the coming seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <a id=\"XRBZfP2OSP5Nvug6rBzjyw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1062304794\" 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:'XRBZfP2OSP5Nvug6rBzjyw',sig:'a8zfXv1K0OzSI1tue-9KdVv4mWwlM6kK_yIf92x-veo=',w:'594px',h:'417px',items:'1062304794',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>Bournemouth have completed the signing of Bristol City left-back Lloyd Kelly on a long-term contract. Kelly, 20, joins for an undisclosed fee. 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