{"id":496896,"date":"2019-08-01T14:16:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=496896"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:31:03","slug":"ben-reeves-mk-dons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/08\/01\/ben-reeves-mk-dons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Reeves Re-Signs For MK Dons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MK Dons have re-signed former midfielder Ben Reeves after his release from Charlton Athletic this summer. Reeves initially joined the Dons in 2013 but left at the end of the 2016\/17 season to sign for the Addicks. However, following his release, he had been playing with the Dons in the second half of their pre-season campaign, with a move to re-sign the midfielder largely approved by fans.<\/p>\n<h2>MK Dons Re-Sign Ben Reeves<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">?Reeves 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\/IRRumkNrsJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/IRRumkNrsJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MK Dons (@MKDonsFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MKDonsFC\/status\/1156983919084019713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Second Time Around<\/h3>\n<p>Reeves initially signed for MK Dons from Southampton in 2013 having spent two spells on loan at Southend United. He quickly established himself as a first-team regular in his first campaign and even scored twice in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/25532042\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3-3 draw against Wigan Athletic<\/a> in the FA Cup &#8211; a trophy which the Latics were the current holders of at the time, and was part of the side that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/28847955\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">magically overcame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/feeds\/manchesterunitedfootball-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Reeves played 135 times in his first spell and scored 32 goals. He was an integral part of the Dons&#8217; promotion to the Championship in 2014\/15 and was one of the few shining lights in that second-tier season.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the club&#8217;s eighth signing of the summer and will don the number seven shirt, as confirmed at the squad presentation evening where the signing was confirmed.<\/p>\n<h3>What They Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the MK Dons website about his return, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkdons.com\/news\/2019\/august\/reeves-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reeves said<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cI came here, mainly just to get fit, but at the same time I was interested to see what it was like here. I wasn\u2019t expecting anything to happen and I\u2019m not sure the club were either but it just grew and I think it\u2019s worked out well for both parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get going again. I pretty much enjoyed every minute of my time here before. That promotion-winning season stands out, of course, as does the Manchester United game. I want to add those memories and go one better if we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"NA32UwQCQhN-98DXUEieqg\" 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\/505709224\" 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:'NA32UwQCQhN-98DXUEieqg',sig:'VEL0emQOEPHf9rq0Cj9-NvObsOdNz8dSuO4_2st9rTw=',w:'594px',h:'391px',items:'505709224',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>MK Dons have re-signed former midfielder Ben Reeves after his release from Charlton Athletic this summer. Reeves initially joined the Dons in 2013 but left at the end of the 2016\/17 season to sign for the Addicks. However, following his release, he had been playing with the Dons in the second half of their pre-season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":496901,"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":[30,32,34,28],"tags":[507,168,188,165,136],"class_list":["post-496896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-league-football","category-league12","category-transfers","tag-ben-reeves","tag-efl","tag-league-one","tag-mk-dons","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496896","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=496896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}