{"id":539893,"date":"2020-01-09T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=539893"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:11:38","slug":"preston-north-end-sign-forward-scott-sinclair-from-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/09\/preston-north-end-sign-forward-scott-sinclair-from-celtic\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston North End Sign Forward Scott Sinclair From Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Promotion hunting <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Preston North End<\/a> have completed their first January signing. Championship side have signed forward Scott Sinclair on a permanent deal from Celtic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f BREAKING: Preston North End are delighted to confirm the permanent transfer of forward <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scotty_Sinclair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Scotty_Sinclair<\/a> from Scottish Premiership side <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CelticFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@CelticFC<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Uaw1gpMQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/8Uaw1gpMQ0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pnefc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#pnefc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v8z2VctkXN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/v8z2VctkXN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Preston North End FC (@pnefc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnefc\/status\/1215030858521939970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Preston North End Sign Scott Sinclair<\/h2>\n<p>Preston confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnefc.net\/news\/2020\/january\/preston-north-end-sign-scott-sinclair-from-celtic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via their website<\/a> they had signed the former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a> forward on a permanent deal. Sinclair has agreed a two- and half-year contract and arrives for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<h3>Sinclair &#8216;Delighted&#8217; To Have Joined Preston<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking ahead of his potential debut against Blackburn Rovers, Sinclair said \u201cI am so delighted to get the deal done. I have been waiting to finally get down here to sign and I can\u2019t wait to get started and to finally meet the lads\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had a fantastic three-and-half-years with Celtic, we did the treble-treble, I got the PFA player of the year, scored goals and was top goal scorer, but now it is a new chapter for me.&#8221; Sinclair is coming to improve and to help the team push for promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Preston manager Alex Neil is very happy to have Sinclair on board. He told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnefc.net\/news\/2020\/january\/preston-north-end-sign-scott-sinclair-from-celtic\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club\u2019s website<\/a>: \u201cI am delighted [to sign Scott]. The season until this point has been good, in terms of getting us into that top six contention, but we have needed to strengthen and add a little bit of know-how and experience in certain areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScott is someone we have been interested in, and we have coveted before, and now that we have got him across the line, I am hoping that he will add that bit of quality and experience that we need.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Sinclair Can Fire Preston to Promotion<\/h3>\n<p>The former Championship Player of the Year is ready to aid Preston\u2019s promotion charge. The Lilywhites are very much in the race but have lacked a direct attacker willing to run at defences.<\/p>\n<p>Sinclair fits that bill. He will be hoping to recapture the form he showed when he helped Swansea get promotion. He is a signing of intent from Preston.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Hr3D8w04TgdcZB08kDdEXw\" 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\/1188119269\" 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:'Hr3D8w04TgdcZB08kDdEXw',sig:'fzwmyEav7hHWUcMfMJZpGL_1q1zc1EA4TjCb_ZTguzY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1188119269',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>Promotion hunting Preston North End have completed their first January signing. Championship side have signed forward Scott Sinclair on a permanent deal from Celtic. &nbsp; \u270d\ufe0f BREAKING: Preston North End are delighted to confirm the permanent transfer of forward @Scotty_Sinclair from Scottish Premiership side @CelticFC! \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/8Uaw1gpMQ0 #pnefc pic.twitter.com\/v8z2VctkXN \u2014 Preston North End FC (@pnefc) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":539917,"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":"1578564000","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8428,32,30,8427,28],"tags":[4477,375,168,659,4586,136],"class_list":["post-539893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-championship","category-celtic","category-league-football","category-news","category-scottish-premiership","category-transfers","tag-2019-20-championship","tag-celtic","tag-efl","tag-preston-north-end","tag-scott-sinclair","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539893","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\/3241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}