{"id":542268,"date":"2020-01-31T04:38:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=542268"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:29:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:29:01","slug":"lewis-gibson-joins-fleetwood-town-on-loan-from-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/31\/lewis-gibson-joins-fleetwood-town-on-loan-from-everton\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Gibson Joins Fleetwood Town on Loan From Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fleetwood Town have completed the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everton<\/a> defender Lewis Gibson on loan until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Lewis Gibson Signs for Fleetwood Town<\/h2>\n<h3>New Contract and a Loan<\/h3>\n<p>Despite loaning him out, it appears Everton see a future for Gibson at the club. The defender has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/lewis-gibsons-new-everton-contract-17663438\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed a new two-and-a-half-year deal with the Premier League outfit<\/a>, as well as joining League One Fleetwood for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson is yet to make a senior appearance for the Toffees since joining from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/newcastle-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newcastle United<\/a> in 2017, but his good performances for the England youth set-up have been rewarded with a move.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old has represented his country at U17, U18 and U20 level.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, Fleetwood head coach Joey Barton said: \u201cLewis is a player that we have been tracking for a while and we are really pleased to see him join us until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s left-footed, big, strong and will be a superb addition to our squad. We anticipate that he will make a real impact in our team from now until the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his first interview with the club, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ftfc\/status\/1223172819208544256\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gibson said<\/a>: &#8220;I feel like the way the club acted about it, they were persistent, they wanted to bring me here, it kind of goes a long way for me. To realise how much they wanted me, for me to come here was an easy decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Helping to Consolidate<\/h3>\n<p>Fleetwood are having another steady season in League One, currently sitting 11th in the table. However, they are without a win in their last five games, with four of those matches being draws.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson will be hopeful that he can shore up the defence enough so that goals scored at the other end prove to be match-winning rather than match-saving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"BMlHOWr2Sap45tmRB0MV7w\" 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\/1161993725\" 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:'BMlHOWr2Sap45tmRB0MV7w',sig:'8cH7TKHrPQ1cNyk7cn4Nlke9saeaMuYUI4NUDbWMctc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1161993725',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>Fleetwood Town have completed the signing of Everton defender Lewis Gibson on loan until the end of the season. Lewis Gibson Signs for Fleetwood Town New Contract and a Loan Despite loaning him out, it appears Everton see a future for Gibson at the club. The defender has signed a new two-and-a-half-year deal with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":542273,"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":[32,13,34,30,3,28],"tags":[168,45,188,4797,40,136],"class_list":["post-542268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-everton","category-league12","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-everton","tag-league-one","tag-lewis-gibson","tag-premier-league","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542268","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}