{"id":554941,"date":"2020-06-23T05:59:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=554941"},"modified":"2020-06-23T05:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:59:31","slug":"sunderland-fan-favourite-chris-maguire-agrees-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/06\/23\/sunderland-fan-favourite-chris-maguire-agrees-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland Fan Favourite Chris Maguire Agrees Contract Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunderland<\/a> fan favourite Chris Maguire<\/a> has agreed on a one-year contract extension. In these uncertain times for the club, the man fans affectionately call “The King”<\/a> will give everyone a confidence boost. The 31-year-old forward will now be under contract with the Black Cats until the end of 2020\/21 season.<\/p>\n

The Wearside club also announced their retained list for the upcoming season via their official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sunderland Agree Contract Extension with Fan Favourite Chris Maguire<\/h2>\n

Fan Favourite Chris Maguire to Stay on Wearside<\/h3>\n

Chris Maguire, known as “The King” amongst fans, has had an impressive two-year spell on Wearside. Signed on a free transfer, the Scot instantly became a fan-favourite with his impressive displays, goals and passion.<\/p>\n

The creative forward with a keen eye for goal can play anywhere across the forward line and will be a key player for manager Phil Parkinson<\/a> when the new season finally gets underway. Maguire scored nine goals in the first season at the Stadium of Light as the club narrowly missed out on promotion.<\/p>\n

A further 11 goals came his way during the current campaign; however, with Sunderland<\/a> outside of the playoffs when the league was suspended, another League One campaign will be played on Wearside.<\/p>\n

Other Contract Talks Ongoing<\/h3>\n

Contract talks with goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin<\/a> and defender Tom Flanagan<\/a> remain ongoing. Current number one McLaughlin has a tough decision to make as the likes of Blackburn Rovers<\/a> and Scottish giants Rangers<\/a> are keen according to Rich Sharpe of the Lancashire Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another fan-favourite Luke O’Nien<\/a> is also set to stay after having his contract extended by a further year.<\/p>\n

Retained List Announced<\/h3>\n

Sunderland’s retained list was announced via their official website. In the over 24-year-old category, Jon McLaughlin and Tom Flanagan feature having had contracts offered to them. As is winger Aiden McGeady<\/a> who has been on loan at Championship side Charlton Athletic<\/a> since January.<\/p>\n

The list also includes those under 24, with Benji Kimpioka,\u00a0Brandon Taylor and Jordan Hunter included having been offered new deals.<\/p>\n

Players released<\/a> and also those who have returned to their parent clubs (Declan John<\/a>, Bailey Wright<\/a> and Antoine Semenyo<\/a>) are also included.<\/p>\n

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Sunderland today announced that fan-favourite Chris Maguire has agreed a contract extension with the club. The Black Cats also released their retianed list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":554968,"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":[32,2,34,1369],"tags":[2993,168,657,90,5467,35,136],"class_list":["post-554941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-featured","category-league12","category-sunderland-league-football","tag-chris-maguire","tag-efl","tag-efl-league-one","tag-fifa","tag-released-and-retained-list","tag-sunderland","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554941","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}