{"id":471649,"date":"2019-07-02T05:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T09:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=471649"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:33:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:33:46","slug":"ryan-tunnicliffe-luton-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/02\/ryan-tunnicliffe-luton-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Tunnicliffe Becomes Luton Town&#8217;s Third Summer Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/manchesterunitedfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/fulham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fulham<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/534e83a0\/Ryan-Tunnicliffe?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Tunnicliffe<\/a> has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/29\/efl-transfer-rumours-luton-town-sunderland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luton Town<\/a> after his <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/11\/football-league-transfer-rumours-leeds-united-millwall-peterborough-united-and-carlisle-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Millwall<\/a> contract expired. The 26-year-old becomes Graeme Jones&#8217; third arrival since taking over at Kenilworth Road.<\/p>\n<h1>Ryan Tunnicliffe Signs For Luton Town<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f NEW SIGNING | Former Manchester United and Fulham midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanTunnicliffe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RyanTunnicliffe<\/a> joins the Hatters on a free transfer after his contract with Millwall expired this summer!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Kenilworth Road, Ryan! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COYH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#COYH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AQShhbI3oW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/AQShhbI3oW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s4pmk7C9OZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/s4pmk7C9OZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Luton Town FC (@LutonTown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LutonTown\/status\/1145752256983306240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>On Joining Luton<\/h2>\n<p>On joining the newly promoted Championship side, Tunnicliffe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutontown.co.uk\/news\/2019\/july\/ryan-tunnicliffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the club website<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m really excited to be here. It\u2019s been a long drawn-out process doing the contracts, but I can\u2019t wait to get going. I met the gaffer about four or five weeks ago. After the season finished he wanted to get to know me face to face and see my personality. And that\u2019s when I knew that something could happen here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone who can play in wide positions and across the midfield, Tunnicliffe will be a good addition to a squad growing in second-tier experience. After the loss of experienced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/ef6714c1\/Alan-McCormack?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan McCormack<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/5c3f2f39\/Glen-Rea?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glen Rea<\/a>\u00a0suffering a long-term injury and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/28\/james-justin-luton-leicester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Justin&#8217;s transfer to Leicester City<\/a>, Jones is wasting no time to boost his numbers ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/21\/luton-town-efl-calendar-middlesbrough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">season opener against Middlesbrough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Word From the Manager<\/h2>\n<p>Jones himself had this to say about his new player, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutontown.co.uk\/news\/2019\/july\/ryan-tunnicliffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>: \u201cRyan is somebody with a great pedigree, having been at Man United as a kid. Again, he is in the category of a player who comes with great Championship experience. He can play on the left or right side of midfield, is technically capable and physically he\u2019s an animal in terms of distance and intensity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to give him a home. He needs to feel loved and we need to be patient with him because I really feel that there is a player in there. I\u2019m delighted that we\u2019ve signed him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With around \u00a38 million rumoured to have come from Justin&#8217;s move to the Midlands,\u00a0Tunnicliffe will certainly not be the last arrival at Luton this summer. He follows <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/9e53837d\/Martin-Cranie?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Cranie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/1a5dbcc2\/Callum-McManaman?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Callum McManaman<\/a>, who also joined after leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/sheffield-united-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheffield United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/06\/25\/efl-transfer-rumours-sheffield-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wigan Athletic<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Q3qkBAF-QglhSIDMoxND2g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1040183074\" 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:'Q3qkBAF-QglhSIDMoxND2g',sig:'flO8v_up37dw0lvGDQGtaDxSzJQkriyaE5SkMePf51Q=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1040183074',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>Former Manchester United and Fulham midfielder Ryan Tunnicliffe has joined Luton Town after his Millwall contract expired. The 26-year-old becomes Graeme Jones&#8217; third arrival since taking over at Kenilworth Road. Ryan Tunnicliffe Signs For Luton Town &nbsp; \u270d\ufe0f NEW SIGNING | Former Manchester United and Fulham midfielder @RyanTunnicliffe joins the Hatters on a free transfer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3079,"featured_media":471715,"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":[33,32,28],"tags":[197,168,1354,489,3936,136],"class_list":["post-471649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-championship","category-league-football","category-transfers","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-luton-town","tag-millwall","tag-ryan-tunnicliffe","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471649","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\/3079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}