{"id":563512,"date":"2020-08-25T12:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=563512"},"modified":"2020-08-25T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:35:40","slug":"rochdale-sign-manchester-city-youngster-gavin-bazunu-on-season-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/08\/25\/rochdale-sign-manchester-city-youngster-gavin-bazunu-on-season-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochdale Sign Manchester City Youngster Gavin Bazunu on Season-Long Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochdale have confirmed that they have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester City<\/a> goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu on a season-long loan.<\/p>\n<h2>Rochdale Sign Gavin Bazunu<\/h2>\n<h3>First Taste of the EFL<\/h3>\n<p>A move to Rochdale offers the 18-year-old his first taste of EFL football.<\/p>\n<p>After joining Manchester City from Shamrock Rovers in 2019, the Irishman has featured predominantly for City&#8217;s U23 side. He made 14 appearances last season, conceding 23 goals.<\/p>\n<p>However, he is highly-rated by his parent club. Bazunu has trained with Pep Guardiola&#8217;s first-team in the past, and travelled to Portugal for their UEFA Champions League game against Lyon earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second player to make the move to Spotland this summer, following the arrival of Alex Newby from non-league club Chorley.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochdaleafc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/august\/gavin-bazunu-joins-rochdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official Rochdale website<\/a> about the move, Bazunu said: &#8220;I\u2019m delighted to be here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the opportunity that I have been looking for, so I\u2019m hoping that I can do well and impress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really enjoyed the first team football that I got at Shamrock Rovers and I just can\u2019t wait to get back into it again. That\u2019s where you gain experience and, how, I believe, you improve at the fastest rate, so I just can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dale boss Brian Barry-Murphy said: &#8220;I\u2019ve been very aware of Gavin since he first came on the scene back in Ireland as a 16-year-old. He blew us all away with his ability from that early age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m being honest, I never thought we\u2019d get the chance to acquire him at our Club, but when I mentioned [in my last interview] about trying to be creative and adding to the squad with extremely talented players, then this is what I had I mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s huge gratitude to Manchester City for allowing us to have Gavin at our Club to continue his development, which is going to be so exciting for everybody to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"UP19OVSFT49Grz-QMJ7Qnw\" 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\/1263160193\" 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:'UP19OVSFT49Grz-QMJ7Qnw',sig:'g841bdl9n0M79StEjxE3_DZDwaQcwH0b2FJEIo_qc3E=',w:'594px',h:'393px',items:'1263160193',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>Rochdale have confirmed that they have signed Manchester City goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu on a season-long loan. Rochdale Sign Gavin Bazunu First Taste of the EFL A move to Rochdale offers the 18-year-old his first taste of EFL football. After joining Manchester City from Shamrock Rovers in 2019, the Irishman has featured predominantly for City&#8217;s U23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":563518,"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":[32,2,34,17,30,28],"tags":[168,6482,100,40,1850,136],"class_list":["post-563512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-featured","category-league12","category-manchester-city","category-news","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-gavin-bazunu","tag-manchester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-rochdale","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563512","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\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}