{"id":542741,"date":"2020-01-31T20:02:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T01:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=542741"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:28:58","slug":"cardiff-city-sign-dion-sanderson-on-loan-from-wolverhampton-wanderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/01\/31\/cardiff-city-sign-dion-sanderson-on-loan-from-wolverhampton-wanderers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City Sign Dion Sanderson on Loan From Wolverhampton Wanderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/cardiff-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff City<\/a> have confirmed that they have signed defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/b3fa76c5\/Dion-Sanderson\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dion Sanderson<\/a> on loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/wolves-club-analysis-news-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Cardiff City Sign Dion Sanderson<\/h2>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Sanderson has made just one appearances for Wolves during his career at Molineux. That came earlier this season, playing 90 minutes in a 2-1 defeat to<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Aston Villa<\/a> in the League Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old has also featured on the bench twice for Nuno Espirito Santo&#8217;s side in his senior career so far.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sanderson has been a key figure for Wolves&#8217; U23&#8217;s this season, featuring 13 times in the heart of defence.<\/p>\n<h3>Dion Sanderson is Third Signing of the Window for Cardiff City<\/h3>\n<p>The young defender is the third signing of the window for Cardiff, as he joins <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c76c717c\/Brad-Smith\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brad Smith<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c7174e81\/Albert-Adomah\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Albert Adomah<\/a> through the doors of the Cardiff City Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has joined the Bluebirds on loan until the end of the season from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/bournemouth\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bournemouth.<\/a> Similar to Sanderson, Smith will provide defensive cover for Neil Harris&#8217; side.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Adomah has also joined on loan from fellow Championship side Nottingham Forest. The Ghanaian has been used as a substitute by Forest boss Sabri Lamouchi for much of the season, with five of his 24 league appearances coming from the bench.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk\/news\/done-deal-city-sign-dion-sanderson-loan\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff City website<\/a>, manager Neil Harris said: &#8220;I wanted to bring in some youthfulness and some energy and we\u2019ve managed to do that with Dion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve said that we need cover in the full-back area, and Dion gives us that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wants to work\u00a0and train hard, and I\u2019m looking forward to working with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff are currently one of several contenders for the play-off places in the Championship. Despite currently sitting in 11th place, they are one four points off of Bristol City in sixth place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"9VB4f5QPQzptiEWvTCnPYQ\" 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\/1197718685\" 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:'9VB4f5QPQzptiEWvTCnPYQ',sig:'2SAzFwSmGtLse2skY1zqMe22-LL5RH1bBo_sbBKbpFQ=',w:'594px',h:'374px',items:'1197718685',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>Cardiff City have confirmed that they have signed defender Dion Sanderson on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers until the end of the season. Cardiff City Sign Dion Sanderson Career So Far Sanderson has made just one appearances for Wolves during his career at Molineux. That came earlier this season, playing 90 minutes in a 2-1 defeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":542765,"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":[32,2509,33,30,3,28,2510],"tags":[38,197,4863,168,40,833,136],"class_list":["post-542741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-cardiff-city","category-championship","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","category-wolves","tag-cardiff-city","tag-championship","tag-dion-sanderson","tag-efl","tag-premier-league","tag-wolverhampton-wanderers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542741","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\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}