{"id":558572,"date":"2020-07-18T05:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=558572"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:27:18","slug":"coventry-city-sign-non-league-defender-jay-mcgrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/18\/coventry-city-sign-non-league-defender-jay-mcgrath\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry City Sign Non-League Defender Jay McGrath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>League One champions Coventry City have completed the signing of Jay McGrath from non-league side Mickleover. The 17-year-old joins on a two-year deal from the Northern Premier Division outfit and will initially link up with Coventry&#8217;s development side.<\/p>\n<h2>Jay McGrath Signs for Coventry City<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d TRANSFER:<\/p>\n<p>Coventry City are pleased to announce the signing of Jay McGrath on a two-year-deal! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PUSB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PUSB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u27a1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X7IOAaxrBM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/X7IOAaxrBM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gzu9QVDhTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Gzu9QVDhTQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coventry City (@Coventry_City) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Coventry_City\/status\/1284125780457521153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A Youngster With a Bright Future<\/h3>\n<p>McGrath is the son of former Burton Albion midfielder and current Mickleover manager John McGrath. Predominantly, he is a left-footed centre-back but has also been deployed as a left-back for his father&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>His breakthrough season at Mickleover came last year, making numerous appearances throughout the course of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He will initially go into Coventry&#8217;s development team to continue his growth, but it says a lot about what Coventry must think of him if they are taking non-league players so soon after their promotion to the Championship.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>U23s head coach Luke Tisdale explained that McGrath&#8217;s experience of having played men&#8217;s football at a young age was key to the signing, telling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/july\/transfer-jay-mcgrath-joins-sky-blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>: &#8220;Jay&#8217;s a second-year scholar and will spend his time with us in the 23s, but also will be available for the U18s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s good in the air and a talented young lad and he joins us with the unique experience of playing men&#8217;s football at such a young age and that can only help the lads here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGrath himself added: &#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to be here and im looking forward to getting started at such a big club with a great fan base.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to get going, hopefully I can push on and make some good progress this year to help my development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"FgijvLX5Q1xxYywdiQqp8Q\" 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\/1165898049\" 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:'FgijvLX5Q1xxYywdiQqp8Q',sig:'K6WYly9aT-uGPbJLwih-D4HaFnutx66vYQ-TJLpMuSo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1165898049',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>League One champions Coventry City have completed the signing of Jay McGrath from non-league side Mickleover. The 17-year-old joins on a two-year deal from the Northern Premier Division outfit and will initially link up with Coventry&#8217;s development side. Jay McGrath Signs for Coventry City &nbsp; \u270d TRANSFER: Coventry City are pleased to announce the signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":558573,"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":[32,34,30,28],"tags":[197,661,168,6094,188,6095,136],"class_list":["post-558572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-championship","tag-coventry-city","tag-efl","tag-jay-mcgrath","tag-league-one","tag-mickleover","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558572","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=558572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}