{"id":558575,"date":"2020-07-18T06:11:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=558575"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:27:18","slug":"chelsea-academy-graduate-josh-grant-signs-for-bristol-rovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/18\/chelsea-academy-graduate-josh-grant-signs-for-bristol-rovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Academy Graduate Josh Grant Signs for Bristol Rovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol Rovers have completed the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a> academy graduate Josh Grant on a three-year deal. It comes just a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/07\/17\/jack-mesure-chelsea-crystal-palace-youth-coach-bristol-rovers-assistant-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Gas appointed former Chelsea youth coach Jack Mesure<\/a> as their assistant manager.<\/p>\n<h2>Josh Grant Signs for Bristol Rovers<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f We are delighted to confirm the signing of Josh Grant! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BristolRovers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BristolRovers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PZxHYvA25E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PZxHYvA25E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bristol Rovers (@Official_BRFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_BRFC\/status\/1284412604434317312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>EFL Experience<\/h3>\n<p>Grant has a good experience of playing in the lower leagues of English football. He joined then-League Two side Yeovil Town on loan for the second half of the 2018\/19 season. His debut came the day after signing in a 1-0 win against Mansfield Town. However, he was unable to help the Glovers from dropping down to the National League.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2019\/20 season, Grant was once again loaned to League Two, linking up with Ryan Lowe&#8217;s Plymouth Argyle. He made 22 appearances in the first half of the season, enough to have played a considerable part in the Pilgrims&#8217; promotion back to League One.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his EFL experience, Grant has also played in the England youth set-up, featuring for the U18s, the U20s (where he was part of the squad that won the Toulon Tournament) and the U21s.<\/p>\n<h3>Garner Excited to Land Talent<\/h3>\n<p>Rovers manager Ben Garner was clearly delighted to land this talented defender, telling the club website: \u201cWe&#8217;re very excited to get Josh in, he&#8217;s had a really good education and upbringing at Chelsea through their academy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is dynamic and has the technical and tactical qualities that we are looking for plus I really like his character and mentality. Josh has the potential to be an excellent signing for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant added: &#8220;The plan Ben had for me, as an individual and for the club, is what made me want to sign. I think he wants to move forward, he realises where I&#8217;m at in my career and I think now is the time for me to kick on and progress as much as I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"6b723rkjQQlocLjOuKqF8w\" 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\/933189236\" 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:'6b723rkjQQlocLjOuKqF8w',sig:'JGlIyDp_cI5-hsIaPOMBZD10sOTs_-CUS09ZE60KCTA=',w:'594px',h:'442px',items:'933189236',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>Bristol Rovers have completed the signing of Chelsea academy graduate Josh Grant on a three-year deal. It comes just a day after the Gas appointed former Chelsea youth coach Jack Mesure as their assistant manager. Josh Grant Signs for Bristol Rovers &nbsp; \u270d\ufe0f We are delighted to confirm the signing of Josh Grant! #BristolRovers pic.twitter.com\/PZxHYvA25E [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":558576,"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":[504,46,168,6086,6096,188,136],"class_list":["post-558575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-bristol-rovers","tag-chelsea","tag-efl","tag-jack-mesure","tag-josh-grant","tag-league-one","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558575","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=558575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}