{"id":564678,"date":"2020-09-04T05:17:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T09:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=564678"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:24:30","slug":"cedric-kipre-west-bromwich-albion-wigan-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/04\/cedric-kipre-west-bromwich-albion-wigan-athletic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Kipre Signs for West Bromwich Albion From Wigan Athletic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon their return to the Premier League, West Bromwich Albion have strengthened their defence with the addition of Cedric Kipre from Wigan Athletic. The 23-year-old, who has international experience with the Ivory Coast U23 squad, joins the Baggies on a four-year deal.<\/p>\n<h2>West Bromwich Albion Sign Cedric Kipre<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kipr\u00e9 announced. \u2611\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re delighted to welcome defender Cedric Kipr\u00e9 to The Hawthorns on a four-year contract \u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BLIPR6HwiE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/BLIPR6HwiE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBA\/status\/1301807310881411072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Form in 2020<\/h3>\n<p>Despite Wigan&#8217;s relegation from the Championship, their form in 2020 would have placed them right at the top of the second tier. Their 12-point deduction for entering administration was what sent them down when, really, their post-lockdown form was among the best in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kipre was a big part of that and was also a key player for the Latics throughout the campaign. The Paris-born defender, who came through the youth ranks at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/paris-saint-germain\/\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>, played 75 times in total during his two seasons at Wigan, with both of his goals for the club coming last season.<\/p>\n<p>As well playing for the Latics, Kipre was at Leicester City as a youngster but failed to make a senior appearance for the Foxes. After spending time on loan at non-league side Corby Town, he made a permanent move to Motherwell and played there for one season before moving to Wigan.<\/p>\n<h3>Baggies Delighted to Land Kipre<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website about Kipre&#8217;s arrival, sporting &amp; technical director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wba.co.uk\/news\/kipre-arrives-albion\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke Dowling said<\/a>: \u201cI believe we\u2019ve signed someone in C\u00e9dric who has got the potential to really establish himself as a Premier League defender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was part of a Wigan team that, from the turn of the year, produced results which would have placed them in the Championship\u2019s top three and C\u00e9dric was a very impressive figure in that run of form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been on our target list for some time. We are delighted to get the deal done and look forward to watching him progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"naB8bNjmTv1ONXfB14VVdg\" 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\/1201113663\" 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:'naB8bNjmTv1ONXfB14VVdg',sig:'SLCyj9f744hExo3KhMSMNo0xL-8L1J6ri27hfzJ0EU4=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'1201113663',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>Upon their return to the Premier League, West Bromwich Albion have strengthened their defence with the addition of Cedric Kipre from Wigan Athletic. The 23-year-old, who has international experience with the Ivory Coast U23 squad, joins the Baggies on a four-year deal. West Bromwich Albion Sign Cedric Kipre &nbsp; Kipr\u00e9 announced. \u2611\ufe0f We&#8217;re delighted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":564686,"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":[32,34,30,3,28,26],"tags":[6217,168,188,40,132,136],"class_list":["post-564678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","category-west-brom","tag-cedric-kipre","tag-efl","tag-league-one","tag-premier-league","tag-west-bromwich-albion","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564678","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=564678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}