{"id":489854,"date":"2019-07-24T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T12:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=489854"},"modified":"2019-07-24T08:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T12:10:05","slug":"matt-miazga-rejoins-reading-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/07\/24\/matt-miazga-rejoins-reading-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Miazga Rejoins Reading On Loan From Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Bet Championship side Reading have resigned defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/9fc0f253\/Matt-Miazga\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Miazga<\/a> on a season-long loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Defender Matt Miazga Rejoins Reading<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You wanted him, we&#8217;ve got him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No introductions needed, welcome back <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattMiazga3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MattMiazga3<\/a>! ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MattIsBack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MattIsBack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reading FC (@ReadingFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReadingFC\/status\/1153975913190756352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nSeason-Long Loan Deal<\/h3>\n<p>Reading have resigned defender Matt Miazga after impressing at the Madejski Stadium last season.<\/p>\n<p>The USA international defender began his career with New York Red Bulls; however, the central defender&#8217;s talents soon brought him to the attention of Chelsea, who lured him across the pond to London as a 20-year-old in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Miazga made two appearances in the Premier League that season before heading to Europe for regular experience.<\/p>\n<p>The defender spent two seasons on loan with Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem, making 72 appearances and scoring five goals. In addition, Miazga helped the Dutch side to their first-ever KNVB Cup title in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Miazga enjoyed the first half of last season with Nantes in the French top-flight. He featured eight times before moving to the Madejski Stadium in January for the remainder of the 2018-19 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Howe, CEO of Reading, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingfc.co.uk\/news\/2019\/july\/matt-miazga-rejoins-the-royals-for-2019-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cEven as a player at the early stage of his career, Matt showed last season that he has a mature head on young shoulders and plenty to offer the squad both on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pleased that he has been keen to return to Reading and I look forward to seeing his contribution for the Royals in the coming season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to iFollow Reading, Miazga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingfc.co.uk\/news\/2019\/july\/-ifollow--matt-miazga-on-his-royals-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said:<\/a> &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to be here. I&#8217;m very happy to rejoin with a full season ahead and get back to work, get back into the swing of things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve enjoyed my time here, the last five months I was here, and now I want to continue, have that continuity. I&#8217;m familiar with the club, I&#8217;ve enjoyed my time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m now looking forward to the season ahead. I got on with the lads, manager, coaching staff and everyone at the club so I&#8217;m looking forward to the upcoming season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"dzzOW2CrS8Z0O1NDxz52uw\" 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\/1154080592\" 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:'dzzOW2CrS8Z0O1NDxz52uw',sig:'h5a5XT9jaKjG15v49Bz68JO1KTafJ8iV779E3i9E4qI=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'1154080592',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Bet Championship side Reading have resigned defender Matt Miazga on a season-long loan from Chelsea. Chelsea Defender Matt Miazga Rejoins Reading You wanted him, we&#8217;ve got him&#8230; No introductions needed, welcome back @MattMiazga3! ?#MattIsBack \u2014 Reading FC (@ReadingFC) July 24, 2019 Season-Long Loan Deal Reading have resigned defender Matt Miazga after impressing at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":489894,"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":[2,33,11,32,3,28],"tags":[46,1091,4009,40,540,136],"class_list":["post-489854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-championship","category-chelsea","category-league-football","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-chelsea","tag-matt-miazga","tag-new-york-red-bull","tag-premier-league","tag-reading","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489854","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=489854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}