{"id":542467,"date":"2020-01-31T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=542467"},"modified":"2020-01-31T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:36:45","slug":"macclesfield-town-sign-winger-harry-hamblin-on-a-free-transfer-from-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/31\/macclesfield-town-sign-winger-harry-hamblin-on-a-free-transfer-from-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Macclesfield Town Sign Winger Harry Hamblin on a Free Transfer From Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>League Two strugglers <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macclesfield Town<\/a> have signed winger Harry Hamblin. The winger arrives on a free transfer from<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/premier-league\/southampton\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Southampton<\/a> and becomes new manager Mark Kennedy\u2019s third January signing.<\/p>\n<h2>Macclesfield Town Sign Harry Hamblin From Southampton<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u26bd\ufe0f Welcome to Macclesfield Town, Harry! ??<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XNyt5LjXyV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/XNyt5LjXyV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Macclesfield Town (@thesilkmen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesilkmen\/status\/1223274975223861249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>The Deal<\/h3>\n<p>Macclesfield announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/january\/31.01.20-silkmen-sign-saint-harry\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via their website<\/a> they had signed the winger. Hamblin arrives on a free transfer from Southampton, signing an initial deal until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster is a product of the Southampton academy but exits St Mary\u2019s looking for first-team football. This will be his first taste of EFL action, and he will bring some much-needed pace and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old progressed through the youth system at St Mary\u2019s before making his debut for the U18 side during the 2015\/16 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to a loan move to National League South side Bath City for the first half of this season, Hamblin had previously established himself as a mainstay in the Saints\u2019 U23 side during the 2018\/19 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Describing himself as a tenacious midfielder player, Hamblin is ready to seize his opportunity and pull Macclesfield away from relegation danger. Although, it will be a case of building up points if the EFL deduct further points for breach of rules.<\/p>\n<p>Hamblin is available for Macclesfield\u2019s game against Northampton Town tomorrow. Mark Kennedy will be delighted to bring the youngster in. He follows Jonathan Mitchell and Danny Whitehead in joining Macclesfield this window to give them a much-needed boost.<\/p>\n<p>Creativity and goals have been severely lacking at Macclesfield. Kennedy will hope the signings of Whitehead and Hamblin will Macclesfield a boost in the attacking areas as they look to pull away from both Morecambe and Stevenage at the bottom of the League Two table.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"_rwXuisdTUFc4KOEgEQtMw\" 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\/1126778963\" 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:'_rwXuisdTUFc4KOEgEQtMw',sig:'ynX7Som_GpFuzriWcJFdKsqsAjUTeuWbN_Q3e8NS3QE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1126778963',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>League Two strugglers Macclesfield Town have signed winger Harry Hamblin. The winger arrives on a free transfer from Southampton and becomes new manager Mark Kennedy\u2019s third January signing. Macclesfield Town Sign Harry Hamblin From Southampton &nbsp; \u26bd\ufe0f Welcome to Macclesfield Town, Harry! ??https:\/\/t.co\/XNyt5LjXyV \u2014 Macclesfield Town (@thesilkmen) January 31, 2020 The Deal Macclesfield announced via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3241,"featured_media":542487,"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":[20,32,34,30,3,28],"tags":[168,4826,2743,235,136],"class_list":["post-542467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southampton","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-harry-hamblin","tag-macclesfield-town","tag-southampton","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542467","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=542467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}