{"id":556414,"date":"2020-07-02T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=556414"},"modified":"2020-07-02T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T13:51:10","slug":"everton-complete-signing-of-french-defender-niels-nkounkou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/02\/everton-complete-signing-of-french-defender-niels-nkounkou\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Complete Signing of French Defender Niels Nkounkou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everton<\/a> have completed the signing of young French defender Niels Nkounkou. The 19-year-old arrives of a free transfer from Ligue 1 outfit Marseille.<\/p>\n<h2>Everton Sign Niels Nkounkou From Marseille<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 | We have signed France U19 left-back Niels Nkounkou on a free transfer from Olympique de Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#EFC<\/a>, Niels! \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Everton (@Everton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Everton\/status\/1278645647923691520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 2, 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>Nkounkou has signed a three-year contract with the Toffees after leaving his boyhood club. The teenager came through the ranks at Marseille and played in their B team last season.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, director of football Marcel Brands said: \u201cNiels is a young, talented player with good technical and physical skills. We have been following him for months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully he can learn a lot from Lucas Digne and Leighton Baines, as well as Carlo Ancelotti and David Unsworth, and follow the same pathway into the first team the likes of Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Mason Holgate have taken in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Another Youngster Leaves<\/h3>\n<p>While one young player arrives from France, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/everton-announce-sale-striker-second-18525502\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another has departed Everton<\/a> to ply their trade across the Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland youth international Fraser Hornby this morning completed his move to Reims, who finished this season in sixth place, level on points with fifth-place Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Hornby started his career with hometown club Northampton Town before being snapped up by Everton in 2017. He did not make a Premier League appearance for the Toffees but featured as a substitute in their 2017\/18 Europa League campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He also spent time out on loan at Belgian First Division A side Kortrijk, making 12 appearances in their campaign and contributing three goals. He added a further two appearances and one goal in cup competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Hornby is yet to make a senior appearance for Scotland but has scored six times in 13 appearances for the U21 team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"a-0AJ28XQdRzYTZkhj0X-g\" 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\/1167742105\" 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:'a-0AJ28XQdRzYTZkhj0X-g',sig:'spXn4ooQVWvTcFl7q-anqXKZSctcPLz9MR1oKmdfbjE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1167742105',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>Everton have completed the signing of young French defender Niels Nkounkou. The 19-year-old arrives of a free transfer from Ligue 1 outfit Marseille. Everton Sign Niels Nkounkou From Marseille &nbsp; \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 | We have signed France U19 left-back Niels Nkounkou on a free transfer from Olympique de Marseille. Welcome to #EFC, Niels! \ud83d\udc99 \u2014 Everton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":556415,"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":[30,13,7,3,28],"tags":[45,3265,122,1471,40,4317,136],"class_list":["post-556414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-everton","category-ligue-1","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-everton","tag-fraser-hornby","tag-ligue-1","tag-marseille","tag-premier-league","tag-reims","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556414","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}