{"id":471724,"date":"2019-07-02T07:13:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T11:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=471724"},"modified":"2019-07-02T07:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T11:13:39","slug":"robert-snodgrass-west-ham-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/02\/robert-snodgrass-west-ham-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Snodgrass Signs New Contract to Stay With West Ham United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/west-ham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Ham United<\/a> have secured the services of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/9f4647e9\/Robert-Snodgrass?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Snodgrass<\/a> on a one-year contract extension until 2021.<\/p>\n<h1>West Ham Retain <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/9f4647e9\/Robert-Snodgrass?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Snodgrass<\/a> Until 2021<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are delighted to announce that Robert Snodgrass has signed a one-year extension with the club until the summer of 2021! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Snoddy2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Snoddy2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1dRaWsatHh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1dRaWsatHh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 West Ham United (@WestHamUtd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestHamUtd\/status\/1145980431117873155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>One-Year Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Robert Snodgrass has signed a new one-year extension to remain with West Ham United until the summer of 2021. The deal also allows the Hammers to trigger an option for the 31-year-old&#8217;s contract to be extended by a further 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/norwich-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norwich City<\/a> midfielder sustained high levels of form throughout the 2018\/19 season, registering four goals and nine assists during his 38 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Snodgrass joined from Hull City in January 2017; however, this season has been Snodgrass&#8217; breakthrough into the first-team after spending the 2017\/18 season on-loan with <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aston Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old also surpassed the 50 appearance threshold for the Hammers.<\/p>\n<p>The Scotland international helped the Villans reach the play-off final last season before establishing himself in Manuel Pellegrini&#8217;s first-team this term.<\/p>\n<h2>Committing to Future<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufc.com\/news\/articles\/2019\/july\/02-july\/robert-snodgrass-pens-west-ham-united-contract-extension\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>, Snodgrass expressed his pleasure at signing a new contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted to commit my future to this great club,&#8221; he said.\u00a0&#8220;Sometimes you get a chance to play for that one club that\u2019s special, going through that special time, and I believe at this moment that\u2019s West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re trying our best to keep progressing and keep moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re building something special here. For me, it\u2019s about trying to build on last season. Trying to get more goals and more assists and trying to be the best teammate I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hammers boss Pellegrini was delighted to have secured the services of the talented midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy that Robert has signed an extension to his contract, which is thoroughly deserved after a very impressive and consistent season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobert brings many qualities to the team \u2013 great ability on the ball and at set-pieces, fantastic energy and work-rate, and excellent character and mentality in the dressing-room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has proved himself to be a very important player for us, a good influence on those around him, and I look forward to seeing him make a big contribution again this coming season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"koB_kMcmSGVPHY0yyeRgiw\" 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\/1133864678\" 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:'koB_kMcmSGVPHY0yyeRgiw',sig:'oM0ubVHRAoduv83SfBQW4nzdr2Dr8YC92BO_949e_nw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1133864678',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>West Ham United have secured the services of Robert Snodgrass on a one-year contract extension until 2021. West Ham Retain Robert Snodgrass Until 2021 &nbsp; We are delighted to announce that Robert Snodgrass has signed a one-year extension with the club until the summer of 2021! #Snoddy2021 pic.twitter.com\/1dRaWsatHh \u2014 West Ham United (@WestHamUtd) July 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":471725,"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":[3,30,27],"tags":[2034,40,775,304,136],"class_list":["post-471724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-news","category-west-ham","tag-manuel-pellegrini","tag-premier-league","tag-robert-snodgrass","tag-west-ham-united","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471724","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\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}