{"id":550941,"date":"2020-05-05T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=550941"},"modified":"2020-05-05T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:59:53","slug":"kyle-edwards-contract-extension-activated-by-west-bromwich-albion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/05\/05\/kyle-edwards-contract-extension-activated-by-west-bromwich-albion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Edwards Contract Extension Activated by West Bromwich Albion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/west-brom\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a> have activated the one-year option which will extend <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/1566e437\/Kyle-Edwards\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Edwards\u2019<\/a> contract until the end of next season. The 22-year-old has made 28 appearances in all competitions this season, netting twice and providing three assists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019ve activated the one-year option which will extend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyleEdwardo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KyleEdwardo<\/a>\u2019s contract. \u270d?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pt8ljGMmBs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/Pt8ljGMmBs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBA\/status\/1257584850346938368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Kyle Edwards Contract Extension<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3>Career so Far<\/h3>\n<p>Edwards\u2019 previous deal was due to expire at the end of the 2019\/20 campaign. The 22-year-old winger is a West Brom academy graduate and is enjoying his breakout season under boss Slaven Bili\u0107.<\/p>\n<p>He made his debut for the club last season and has gone on to make 39 first-team appearances in total. Although the majority of his appearances have come from the bench, the winger has impressed with his energetic play on the flanks.<\/p>\n<p>West Brom were in talks with Edwards about a new and improved deal before the Covid-19 outbreak. Technical Director Luke Dowling says that those discussions would resume when football gets to grips with its current situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in advanced discussions with Kyle and his representative when the pandemic brought everything to a halt,\u201d said Dowling in a statement on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wba.co.uk\/news\/2020\/may\/albion-take-up-edwards-option\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose discussions will resume at a suitable point but it made sense in the meantime to activate the option that keeps Kyle with us until the end of the following season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Albion have also reportedly completed the formalities to ensure loanees <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f522d7ec\/Grady-Diangana\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grady Diangana<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/e75750a3\/Callum-Robinson\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Callum Robinson<\/a> remain at the club if the season is extended beyond June 30. Additionally, they are confident they will strike the same agreement with Benfica for <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/c2dfedeb\/Filip-Krovinovic\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filip Krovinovi\u0107<\/a> in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The Baggies sat in second place in the Championship before the season was halted. They are six points ahead of Fulham in third place in the race for automatic promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"JT61XhVTTKZTApiRIqfCkQ\" 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\/1205002634\" 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:'JT61XhVTTKZTApiRIqfCkQ',sig:'5RnJo_HBPIhBctzaeKBaL1yNa9z73niMLgMi_KL7Y1w=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1205002634',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>West Bromwich Albion have activated the one-year option which will extend Kyle Edwards\u2019 contract until the end of next season. The 22-year-old has made 28 appearances in all competitions this season, netting twice and providing three assists. We\u2019ve activated the one-year option which will extend @KyleEdwardo\u2019s contract. \u270d?https:\/\/t.co\/Pt8ljGMmBs \u2014 West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) May 5, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2382,"featured_media":550975,"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":[32,33,30,26],"tags":[4758,4895,4094,3798,305,132,3805,136],"class_list":["post-550941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-news","category-west-brom","tag-callum-robinson","tag-filip-krovinovic","tag-grady-diangana","tag-kyle-edwards","tag-slaven-bilic","tag-west-bromwich-albion","tag-west-bromwich-albion-academy","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550941","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\/2382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}