{"id":561496,"date":"2020-08-10T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=561496"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:24:36","slug":"otis-khan-joins-tranmere-rovers-as-ollie-banks-signs-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/08\/10\/otis-khan-joins-tranmere-rovers-as-ollie-banks-signs-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Otis Khan Joins Tranmere Rovers as Ollie Banks Signs New Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tranmere Rovers have announced the signing of midfielder Otis Khan after he left Mansfield Town. Rovers beat off competition from teams in League One as well as League Two to land the former Yeovil Town star, who joins Tranmere on a one-year contract. As well, the club have confirmed that fellow midfielder Ollie Banks has signed a new one-year deal.<\/p>\n<h2>Otis Khan Joins Tranmere Rovers While Ollie Banks Signs New Deal<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2712\ufe0f After fighting off interest from League One clubs, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TRFC<\/a> are pleased to announced the signing of Otis Khan!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Prenton Park, Otis!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TRFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SWA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SWA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tranmere Rovers FC (@TranmereRovers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TranmereRovers\/status\/1292861988503199744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcdd<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TRFC<\/a> are pleased to announce that Ollie Banks has agreed a new contract at the Club!<\/p>\n<p>BANKSY \ud83d\ude0d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TRFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TRFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SWA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SWA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tranmere Rovers FC (@TranmereRovers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TranmereRovers\/status\/1292789307476971520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Khan Arrives From Mansfield<\/h3>\n<p>Despite being just 24-years-old, Khan has plenty of experience in League Two having made over 60 appearances for Yeovil at this level. After leaving the Glovers in 2018, he linked up with Mansfield and helped them finish fourth in 2018\/19 before a more disappointing campaign last season saw the Stags finish 21st.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival gives more attacking options to new Tranmere manager Mike Jackson, and upon completing his move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tranmererovers.co.uk\/news\/2020\/august\/midfielder-otis-khan-joins-tranmere-rovers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khan told the club website<\/a>: \u201cI am delighted, it is an exciting time and I am really happy to be here. A number of factors were behind my decision to join Tranmere Rovers, but the main reason was the manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way that he works and I had a really good chat with him and his coaching staff. The way that he works and the goals he has set for the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Banks &#8216;Can&#8217;t Wait&#8217; to Get Going<\/h3>\n<p>A potential partner for Khan in the middle is Ollie Banks after he signed a new one-year deal with the club.<\/p>\n<p>He told the club website: &#8220;Obviously with what happened last season and the uncertain times we have had in recent months around the world, it is nice to be back at the Campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is nearly five months since I was last at the training ground, it is good to see the boys and I can\u2019t wait to get back playing football for Tranmere Rovers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"v1h-uFM3TMBHKXocQPYBFg\" 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\/1024905378\" 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:'v1h-uFM3TMBHKXocQPYBFg',sig:'sOkO27JnGPcmzGQ_4urO3kyXhlxoYieC8wMH0xoy9cw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1024905378',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>Tranmere Rovers have announced the signing of midfielder Otis Khan after he left Mansfield Town. Rovers beat off competition from teams in League One as well as League Two to land the former Yeovil Town star, who joins Tranmere on a one-year contract. As well, the club have confirmed that fellow midfielder Ollie Banks has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":561497,"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":[168,520,6345,4860,2662,136],"class_list":["post-561496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-league-two","tag-ollie-banks","tag-otis-khan","tag-tranmere-rovers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561496","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=561496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}