{"id":555076,"date":"2020-06-23T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=555076"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:27:36","slug":"mansfield-town-sign-prolific-goalscorer-jamie-reid-from-torquay-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/06\/23\/mansfield-town-sign-prolific-goalscorer-jamie-reid-from-torquay-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansfield Town Sign Prolific Goalscorer Jamie Reid From Torquay United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Reid has become the second signing in as many days for League Two side Mansfield Town. He joins following <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/06\/22\/jordan-bowery-join-mansfield-town-from-mk-dons\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Bowery&#8217;s arrival from MK Dons<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<h2>Mansfield Town Sign Jamie Reid From Torquay United<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy with your new club, Jamie? ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6xxv46vIx3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6xxv46vIx3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mansfield Town FC (@mansfieldtownfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mansfieldtownfc\/status\/1275487522970390530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Reid Rejected Torquay Offer<\/h3>\n<p>The 25-year-old joins Mansfield on a two-year contract after rejecting a new contract from Torquay at the end of this season.<\/p>\n<p>The striker impressed massively in the 2018\/19 season after scoring 31 goals in all competitions for the Gulls as they gained promotion into the National League.<\/p>\n<p>Going into this season, the striker beamed with confidence and managed to score 18 goals for Torquay this season.<\/p>\n<h3>He is a Proven Goalscorer<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldtown.net\/news\/2020\/june\/stags-capture-talented-striker\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>, manager Graham Coughlan spoke of his delight at getting the deal over the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is young, fit and gives us great mobility,&#8221; Coughlan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows where the net is and is a proven goalscorer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been tracking him for some time and he is a player who the fans will really take to. He is desperate for an opportunity at a higher level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is someone who really fits into our DNA and as soon as we get going again, I\u2019m sure he will be a player who can get our fans on the edge of their seats.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"adition-container\">\n<h3 id=\"adition-instance-4392383\" class=\"adition-instance adition-outstream\" data-adition-group=\"outstream\">Mansfield Town Strengthening in the Forward Department<\/h3>\n<p>Mansfield look to add fresh faces into their squad as Graham Coughlan released 11 players at the end of the 2019\/20 season.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Rose and Andy Cook have been retained with Nicky Maynard yet to sign a new contract for the club.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/06\/22\/jordan-bowery-join-mansfield-town-from-mk-dons\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bowery<\/a> and Reid gives the Stags more flexibility and mixed abilities that these forwards show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"6YGpc5IrQdR7fwBr43L2rQ\" 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\/668619698\" 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:'6YGpc5IrQdR7fwBr43L2rQ',sig:'Rb16yGEvzr8wJJRg4KznwozL-sHl2U_6TKP_zCAVnR4=',w:'594px',h:'460px',items:'668619698',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>Jamie Reid has become the second signing in as many days for League Two side Mansfield Town. He joins following Jordan Bowery&#8217;s arrival from MK Dons yesterday. Mansfield Town Sign Jamie Reid From Torquay United &nbsp; Happy with your new club, Jamie? ?? pic.twitter.com\/6xxv46vIx3 \u2014 Mansfield Town FC (@mansfieldtownfc) June 23, 2020 Reid Rejected Torquay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3461,"featured_media":555087,"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":[32,34,30],"tags":[168,827,5752,520,2625,5751,136],"class_list":["post-555076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","tag-efl","tag-efl-league-two","tag-jamie-reid","tag-league-two","tag-mansfield-town","tag-torquay-united","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555076","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\/3461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}