{"id":561965,"date":"2020-08-13T16:13:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=561965"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:24:35","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-sign-chey-dunkley-wigan-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/08\/13\/sheffield-wednesday-sign-chey-dunkley-wigan-athletic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday Sign Chey Dunkley From Wigan Athletic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield Wednesday have completed the signing of centre-back Chey Dunkley from Wigan Athletic. The 28-year-old becomes Wednesday&#8217;s second signing of the summer <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/07\/28\/fisayo-dele-bashiru-signs-for-sheffield-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after the capture<\/a> of Fisayo Dele-Bashiru from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Sheffield Wednesday Sign Chey Dunkley<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd89 Happy with this one Owls? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/swfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#swfc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheffield Wednesday (@swfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swfc\/status\/1293949679466676225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Dunkley&#8217;s Career<\/h3>\n<p>Wolverhampton-born Dunkley came through the youth academy at Crewe Alexandra, but after a loan spell at Hednesford Town, he left Crewe without having appeared for the first team.<\/p>\n<p>He dropped down to non-league again, signing for Hednesford on a permanent deal before moving onto Kidderminster Harriers.<\/p>\n<p>After close to 100 appearances for Kidderminster, Dunkley was loaned to Oxford United in 2014 before joining the U&#8217;s permanently that January, finally getting a chance at EFL level.<\/p>\n<p>He excelled at Oxford, featuring in the Football League Trophy final at Wembley against Barnsley &#8211; although his own goal helped the Tykes to a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>He also scored the first goal in the 3-0 win against Wycombe Wanderers which helped Oxford secure promotion to League One in the 2015\/16 season.<\/p>\n<p>Following the expiry of his contract at Oxford, Dunkley joined Wigan in 2017. In his three seasons with the Latics, he made a total of 105 appearances and scored 13 times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udc99 Best wishes, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chey_Dks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Chey_Dks<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Latics &#8216;100 Club&#8217; &#8211; thank you for your excellent contribution in your three years with us and good luck in your future career.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wafc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#wafc<\/a> \ud83d\udd35\u26aa\ufe0f\ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fXq6usNnQv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/fXq6usNnQv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yupl5iMUDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Yupl5iMUDI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wigan Athletic (@LaticsOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaticsOfficial\/status\/1293952136930373637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He scored seven of those in Wigan&#8217;s promotion-winning season in 2017\/18. A goalless campaign then followed before the rest of his six came in the season that has just finished &#8211; one in which Wigan were relegated.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Dunkley said of his move to the club: &#8220;Thanks for the welcoming messages&#8230; can&#8217;t wait to get to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ORatA923RqJ_cAEh_bLS8g\" 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\/927854744\" 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:'ORatA923RqJ_cAEh_bLS8g',sig:'DrfQDWIL4t2GLq0gZJjUTJsswBtOWz8vqlAvtQ4yaD4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'927854744',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>Sheffield Wednesday have completed the signing of centre-back Chey Dunkley from Wigan Athletic. The 28-year-old becomes Wednesday&#8217;s second signing of the summer after the capture of Fisayo Dele-Bashiru from Manchester City. Sheffield Wednesday Sign Chey Dunkley &nbsp; \ud83e\udd89 Happy with this one Owls? #swfc \u2014 Sheffield Wednesday (@swfc) August 13, 2020 Dunkley&#8217;s Career Wolverhampton-born Dunkley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":561969,"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":[32,33,30,28],"tags":[197,6388,168,1083,795,136],"class_list":["post-561965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-news","category-transfers","tag-championship","tag-chey-dunkely","tag-efl","tag-sheffield-wednesday","tag-wigan-athletic","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561965","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=561965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}