{"id":540113,"date":"2020-01-10T13:33:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=540113"},"modified":"2020-01-10T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:33:05","slug":"mk-dons-sign-midfielder-ben-gladwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/10\/mk-dons-sign-midfielder-ben-gladwin\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Dons Sign Midfielder Ben Gladwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MK Dons<\/a> have completed their second January signing. The Dons have signed midfielder Ben Gladwin on a free transfer after his release from Blackburn Rovers.<\/p>\n<h2>MK Dons Sign Ben Gladwin<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gladwin is a Don \u270d\ufe0f<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\/jvNupW541q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/jvNupW541q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MK Dons (@MKDonsFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MKDonsFC\/status\/1215664862212296711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>MK Dons announced<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkdons.com\/news\/2020\/january\/mk-dons-grab-gladwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> via their website<\/a> they had signed Gladwin from Blackburn. The midfielder arrives on a free transfer after struggling for game time at Ewood Park.<\/p>\n<p>Gladwin has been training with MK Dons since leaving Blackburn at the beginning of January.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the MK Dons website about his move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkdons.com\/news\/2020\/january\/mk-dons-grab-gladwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gladwin said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m delighted to get this done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been training here for a few weeks now. Originally, I initially came in to stay fit, but I really enjoyed it and we started talking off the back of that. I\u2019m excited to be an MK Dons player now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a great bunch of lads here, who have welcomed me into the dressing room right away. The team is looking to play football the right way and that\u2019s something that suits me. I look forward to getting started properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkdons.com\/news\/2020\/january\/mk-dons-grab-gladwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russell Martin added:<\/a> \u201cHe originally came in for training to keep his fitness up, but he\u2019s grabbed his opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been unfortunate with injuries recently, but he looks to be in a good place, and he\u2019s shown us the quality he possesses during training. It\u2019s a good sign when the players are coming up to me and asking when we are signing him!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a good character and a very good player. He\u2019s got a number of good attributes and he also brings with him a real physical presence. We\u2019re very pleased to have him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gladwin goes straight into the MK Dons squad for their game against Coventry this weekend.<\/p>\n<h3>Gladwin Gives Russell Martin More Options in Midfield<\/h3>\n<p>This is a good signing for MK Dons and certainly gives Russell Martin more options in the middle as he plots MK Dons\u2019 survival in League One.<\/p>\n<p>Gladwin will compete with the current League One Player of the Month in Alex Gilbey.<\/p>\n<p>The Dons are showing real improvement in League One and certainly, Gladwin will be grateful for the opportunity to show his worth to the team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"LytyWGDITX5KMT-uKenTpA\" 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\/1185486471\" 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:'LytyWGDITX5KMT-uKenTpA',sig:'bdP-qIvfs_N3RkCrh33X942Rm3DdX1L4NLViXhmvX4M=',w:'594px',h:'401px',items:'1185486471',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 completed their second January signing. The Dons have signed midfielder Ben Gladwin on a free transfer after his release from Blackburn Rovers. MK Dons Sign Ben Gladwin &nbsp; Gladwin is a Don \u270d\ufe0f#DonDeal pic.twitter.com\/jvNupW541q \u2014 MK Dons (@MKDonsFC) January 10, 2020 What Was Said MK Dons announced via their website they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":540123,"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":[32,34,30,28],"tags":[4608,238,168,165,136],"class_list":["post-540113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-ben-gladwin","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-efl","tag-mk-dons","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540113","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=540113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}