{"id":539326,"date":"2020-01-03T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=539326"},"modified":"2020-01-03T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T12:38:09","slug":"middlesbrough-sign-manchester-city-striker-lukas-nmecha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/03\/middlesbrough-sign-manchester-city-striker-lukas-nmecha\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough Sign Manchester City Striker Lukas Nmecha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middlesbrough hope to reignite their Sky Bet Championship campaign with the loan signing of Lukas Nmecha.<\/p>\n<h2>Middlesbrough Sign Manchester City Striker Lukas Nmecha<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re delighted to announce our second January signing. Welcome, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LukasNmecha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@LukasNmecha<\/a>! \ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UTB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Middlesbrough FC (@Boro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Boro\/status\/1213059901548834816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Season-Long Loan<\/h3>\n<p>Nmecha joins Middlesbrough in the second-tier until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Germany Under-21 international has spent the first part of the season on loan with Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p>He also spent last season out on loan, featuring for Preston in the Championship with whom he made 38 appearances and scored four goals.<\/p>\n<p>After tying the young forward down until the end of the season, Boro boss Jonathan Woodgate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfc.co.uk\/news\/boro-complete-loan-deal-for-lukas-nmecha\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>: &#8220;We\u2019re delighted to bring Lukas to the club. He is a terrific young player who has the benefit of a year\u2019s experience of Championship football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is another young, hungry player of real quality and it\u2019s great that we\u2019ve been able to get him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Lukas and Patrick we have signed two very good players, and we\u2019ve been able to bring them in early in the transfer window which is a real bonus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Second Boro Signing of the Window<\/h3>\n<p>Nmecha follows in the footsteps of Manchester City winger <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/01\/02\/middlesbrough-sign-patrick-roberts-on-loan-from-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Roberts in joining Boro on loan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining City, Roberts has found most of his playing opportunities come while out on loan.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently he was with Norwich City; however, the deal proved not to be fruitful as he made just four appearances in six months.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesbrough have seen an upturn in form in recent weeks, and the arrival of Patrick Roberts will be a welcome boost at the Riverside.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Woodgate has managed to turn his fortunes around after looking destined for the sack.<\/p>\n<p>His side have won their last four games, conceding just once, and have just one defeat in their last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <a id=\"S2Psyp3UT3duz50xNSj9Qg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1183266589\" 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:'S2Psyp3UT3duz50xNSj9Qg',sig:'KATXFf1r1AtrH-AIZe_cLZ_PLQMix9z40Shq11yjwnY=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1183266589',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>Middlesbrough hope to reignite their Sky Bet Championship campaign with the loan signing of Lukas Nmecha. Middlesbrough Sign Manchester City Striker Lukas Nmecha We&#39;re delighted to announce our second January signing. Welcome, @LukasNmecha! \ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f #UTB &mdash; Middlesbrough FC (@Boro) January 3, 2020 Season-Long Loan Nmecha joins Middlesbrough in the second-tier until the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":539330,"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":[2,33,32,17,3,28],"tags":[168,4526,100,347,136],"class_list":["post-539326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-championship","category-league-football","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-lukas-nmecha","tag-manchester-city","tag-middlesbrough","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539326","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=539326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}