{"id":458684,"date":"2019-06-14T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T11:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=458684"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:33:53","slug":"regan-poole-mk-dons-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/06\/14\/regan-poole-mk-dons-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Regan Poole Joins MK Dons Following Manchester United Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welsh defender Regan Poole has signed for League One side MK Dons following his release from Premier League club <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/manchesterunitedfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a>. The 20-year-old spent last season on loan at Newport County and was part of the side that reached the League Two play-off final, narrowly<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/05\/26\/connor-jennings-late-winner-sends-tranmere-rovers-into-league-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> losing out to Tranmere Rovers<\/a>. Poole becomes the Dons&#8217; fifth signing of the transfer window, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/05\/27\/mk-dons-make-hiram-boateng-first-summer-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hiram Boateng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/05\/30\/brennan-dickenson-signs-for-mk-dons-on-free-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brennan Dickenson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/04\/joe-mason-signs-for-mk-dons-from-wolverhampton-wanderers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Mason<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/11\/jordan-bowery-mk-dons-crewe-alexandra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Bowery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h1>Regan Poole Signs For MK Dons After Manchester United Release<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Poole is a Don! ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DonDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DonDeal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/36aru6KHiU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/36aru6KHiU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MK Dons (@MKDonsFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MKDonsFC\/status\/1139487649096273920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Career So Far<\/h2>\n<p>Poole, born in Cardiff, started out at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/cardiff-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff City<\/a> academy but joined the set-up at Newport County as a scholar in 2014. He then had a trial at Manchester United before making his senior debut for the Exiles, starting a League Two match against Shrewsbury Town at just 16 years and 94 days old.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newport-county.co.uk\/news\/2015\/september\/regan-poole-secures-a-switch-to-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newport confirmed<\/a> that Poole had joined United, but was mainly used in the youth and reserve sides. He was, though, included in the Red Devils&#8217; squad for the knockout phase of their 2015\/16 Europa League campaign. He was an unused substitute in the round of 32 first leg against FC Midtjylland but made his debut in the reverse fixture as a late substitute for Ander Herrera.<\/p>\n<p>Poole joined up with Northampton Town on loan for the 2017\/18 season, making 22 appearances for the Cobblers as they were relegated from League One.<\/p>\n<p>His final stint before joining MK Dons came back at Newport County on loan as the Exiles defied all the odds to reach the play-offs. He played a starring role in the final against Tranmere but eventually came out on the losing side after a late winner from Connor Jennings.<\/p>\n<h2>What They Said<\/h2>\n<p>In his first interview with the club, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkdons.com\/news\/2019\/june\/dons-recruit-wales-under-21-international-regan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poole told the MK Dons website<\/a>: &#8220;I\u2019m delighted. As soon as I heard that the club was interested in me, I was very excited and wanted to get the deal done.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke to the manager and he really interested me in the way he wants to work. I\u2019ve played against the club a few times and played here at the stadium and everything about the place just interested me. As soon as I knew they wanted me it was a no brainer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a new stage of my career and I can\u2019t wait to get started. It\u2019s time to settle down, play some football and help this club be successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <a id=\"XaLneKSqSwZWPXxkfxkHOQ\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1148934267\" 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:'XaLneKSqSwZWPXxkfxkHOQ',sig:'R0o6dQed6hgSH-qr3SVvYxkeRFoSMSkuiPBNU_7pc_o=',w:'594px',h:'400px',items:'1148934267',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>Welsh defender Regan Poole has signed for League One side MK Dons following his release from Premier League club Manchester United. The 20-year-old spent last season on loan at Newport County and was part of the side that reached the League Two play-off final, narrowly losing out to Tranmere Rovers. Poole becomes the Dons&#8217; fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":458685,"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":[32,34],"tags":[168,188,165,3862,136],"class_list":["post-458684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","tag-efl","tag-league-one","tag-mk-dons","tag-regan-poole","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458684","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}