{"id":540425,"date":"2020-01-14T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=540425"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T16:08:00","slug":"burton-albion-sign-defender-conor-shaughnessy-on-loan-from-leeds-united-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/14\/burton-albion-sign-defender-conor-shaughnessy-on-loan-from-leeds-united-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton Albion Sign Defender Conor Shaughnessy on Loan From Leeds United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burton Albion<\/a> have made their first January signing. The Brewers have signed defender Conor Shaughnessy on loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leeds United<\/a> for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Burton Sign Conor Shaughnessy<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f Welcome to Burton Albion, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Conor_shaughs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Conor_Shaughs<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BAFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BAFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Burton Albion FC (@burtonalbionfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/burtonalbionfc\/status\/1216751763484622848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Move<\/h3>\n<p>Burton announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burtonalbionfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/january\/1301-shaughnessy\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via their website<\/a> they had signed Shaughnessy. The defender arrives on loan for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Shaughnessy spent the first half of the season at League Two Mansfield making 19 appearances for the Stags.<\/p>\n<p>Burton have the option to buy him at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the Burton website about his move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burtonalbionfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/january\/1301-shaughnessy\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaughnessy said<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s something that has been in the pipeline for a while. I\u2019m delighted to be here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a good chat with the manager [Nigel Clough] and I\u2019m really looking forward to getting started with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really liked what the manager had to say, and it seems like a really good set-up here, with a good group of players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been playing a lot in central midfield, in the holding role. I can play centre-half as well. I like to get on the ball and play good football, pass the ball and I can head and tackle as well!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll give everything for the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manager Nigel Clough is delighted to have Shaughnessy at the club. He said: \u201cHe\u2019ll bring versatility &#8211; he can play a number of positions. But we&#8217;ve not just brought him in purely for cover, he&#8217;ll be starting games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can play across the back four or in the holding midfield role, so he covers a number of positions. He\u2019s got good experience, playing in the Scottish Premiership for Hearts and had half a season at Mansfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe nearly took him in the summer but he went to Mansfield and played quite a few games, including one quite well against us here (in the Leasing.com Trophy) and we\u2019ve managed to secure him for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a slight hamstring problem at the moment, but he should be fit for Accrington in 10 days\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"KhAbF-aoRERwGOKBBC-ZRg\" 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\/865919104\" 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:'KhAbF-aoRERwGOKBBC-ZRg',sig:'PudACtobQD54xDi-0YyGJ0XfzcrE9UsFgcyE999GF9Y=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'865919104',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>Burton Albion have made their first January signing. The Brewers have signed defender Conor Shaughnessy on loan from Leeds United for the rest of the season. Burton Sign Conor Shaughnessy &nbsp; \u270d\ufe0f Welcome to Burton Albion, @Conor_Shaughs!#BAFC \u2014 Burton Albion FC (@burtonalbionfc) January 13, 2020 The Move Burton announced via their website they had signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":540460,"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":"1579010400","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,33,32,34,6443,30],"tags":[408,4632,168,240,136],"class_list":["post-540425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-championship","category-league-football","category-league12","category-leeds-united","category-news","tag-burton-albion","tag-conor-shaughnessy","tag-efl","tag-leeds-united","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540425","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=540425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}