{"id":541076,"date":"2020-01-20T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T23:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=541076"},"modified":"2020-01-20T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T23:32:46","slug":"shrewsbury-sign-midfielder-josh-vela-on-a-free-transfer-from-hibernian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/20\/shrewsbury-sign-midfielder-josh-vela-on-a-free-transfer-from-hibernian\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrewsbury Sign Midfielder Josh Vela on a Free Transfer from Hibernian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shrewsbury<\/a> have made their second January signing. The Shrews have signed midfielder Josh Vela on a free transfer after he was released by Scottish Premiership side Hibernian.<\/p>\n<h2>Shrewsbury Sign Midfielder Josh Vela<\/h2>\n<p>Shrewsbury announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shrewsburytown.com\/news\/2020\/january\/josh-vela-joins-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via their website<\/a> they had signed the free agent. Vela arrives as the club\u2019s second January recruit signing a two-and-half-year deal at the Montgomery Waters Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Vela reunites with Shrewsbury boss Sam Ricketts with the pair having played together at Bolton Wanderers. He is primarily a central midfielder, but Vela has played at right-back during his career.<\/p>\n<p>He was the bright spark for many seasons in a Bolton side which flirted with Championship relegation and League One promotion. However, he struggled to make an impact in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>He returns to England determined to keep Shrewsbury in the promotion race with the Shrews just seven points off the top six in League One. Vela brings plenty of experience and a quality midfield presence.<\/p>\n<p>Vela could make his Shrewsbury debut this weekend when Liverpool visit the Montgomery Waters Stadium in the FA Cup fourth\u00a0round.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the Shrewsbury website about his move, Vela said \u201cI am delighted to have got the deal over the line. I can\u2019t wait to get started and I\u2019m buzzing to get going. I\u2019ve just met the Chairman and he seems like a lovely guy. I have played here once or twice. It\u2019s a good stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would describe myself as an all-action midfielder who likes to get up and down the pitch. I like to get stuck in and hopefully, I can chip in with a few goals&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vela knows Sam Ricketts well, stating, \u201cI know the Gaffer because I played with him at Bolton. I know what he\u2019s like, he\u2019s an enthusiastic guy and I can\u2019t wait to get going. He\u2019s the one who pushed this through, and I want to play for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have experience playing in this league with Bolton. I know what it takes to get out of this league so hopefully, I can add that experience and help the team push up the table. The ambition is to get promotion and push the Club forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"QSHrEl2YQSxFunBEGXOCXw\" 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\/1075721658\" 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:'QSHrEl2YQSxFunBEGXOCXw',sig:'9aY3rSA6zi-k87gnwSLQdus-q1W63eygatX26sP9Th0=',w:'594px',h:'421px',items:'1075721658',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>Shrewsbury have made their second January signing. The Shrews have signed midfielder Josh Vela on a free transfer after he was released by Scottish Premiership side Hibernian. Shrewsbury Sign Midfielder Josh Vela Shrewsbury announced via their website they had signed the free agent. Vela arrives as the club\u2019s second January recruit signing a two-and-half-year deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":541084,"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":"1579550400","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,28],"tags":[168,4685,188,1402],"class_list":["post-541076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-josh-vela","tag-league-one","tag-shrewsbury-town"],"modified_by":"Sean Wilson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541076","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=541076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}