{"id":559239,"date":"2020-07-22T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=559239"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:27:14","slug":"blackpool-sign-cj-hamilton-from-mansfield-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/22\/blackpool-sign-cj-hamilton-from-mansfield-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool Sign CJ Hamilton From Mansfield Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackpool have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/football-transfer-news\/completed-transfers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">completed the signing<\/a> of Mansfield Town winger CJ Hamilton for an undisclosed fee. The highly-rated forward signs a three-year contract with the Seasiders having spent four years with Mansfield in League Two.<\/p>\n<h2>CJ Hamilton Signs for Blackpool<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f We&#8217;re pleased to announce CJ Hamilton has joined the Club for an undisclosed fee from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mansfieldtownfc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@mansfieldtownfc<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Full details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CiISb9yU1t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/CiISb9yU1t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf4a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTMP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UTMP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h25ZVWKcLW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/h25ZVWKcLW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blackpool FC (@BlackpoolFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackpoolFC\/status\/1285975737049194496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Hamilton&#8217;s Career<\/h3>\n<p>Despite being born in London, Hamilton came through the academy at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/sheffield-united-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheffield United<\/a>, although he did not make a senior appearance for the club. While with the Blades, he spent the second half of the 2014\/15 season on loan at FC Halifax Town and then the next campaign with Gateshead.<\/p>\n<p>Following his release by Sheffield United, he was snapped up by Mansfield and that&#8217;s where his career took off. His performances in the 2018\/19 season were rightly lauded, but the Stags ultimately missed out on automatic promotion to League One following a final day defeat to MK Dons.<\/p>\n<p>Mansfield have struggled to replicate that form this season, leading to a decrease in output from Hamilton, but he was still one of the brightest sparks in the fourth tier and deserves his chance to perform in League One.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd29 Incoming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf4a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTMP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UTMP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FkcNHi9uz8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FkcNHi9uz8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blackpool FC (@BlackpoolFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackpoolFC\/status\/1285977797899554816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website about the move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/july\/blackpool-bring-in-hamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hamilton said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to the future here and I can\u2019t wait to get started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed my time at Mansfield, but after speaking to Neil Critchley I knew I wanted to come to Blackpool. The vision that the Owner, Board and Head Coach have for the Club is hugely exciting and I\u2019m hopeful we can deliver the goods come the end of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"B9BdYjjxSBhLQH4LRKgR8w\" 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\/1175411525\" 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:'B9BdYjjxSBhLQH4LRKgR8w',sig:'XliGvgYCVmpkPIMW3IWWSIpaeVv6OzHwUKqYnJAZifg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1175411525',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>Blackpool have completed the signing of Mansfield Town winger CJ Hamilton for an undisclosed fee. The highly-rated forward signs a three-year contract with the Seasiders having spent four years with Mansfield in League Two. CJ Hamilton Signs for Blackpool &nbsp; \u270d\ufe0f We&#8217;re pleased to announce CJ Hamilton has joined the Club for an undisclosed fee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":559240,"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":[980,3700,168,188,520,2625,136],"class_list":["post-559239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-blackpool","tag-cj-hamilton","tag-efl","tag-league-one","tag-league-two","tag-mansfield-town","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559239","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=559239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}