{"id":564800,"date":"2020-09-05T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T11:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=564800"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:20:52","slug":"gibson-on-loan-at-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/05\/gibson-on-loan-at-norwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City Confirm Ben Gibson on Season Long Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/ben-gibson\/profil\/spieler\/128904\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Gibson<\/a> was unveiled as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/search\/norwich\" target=\"_self\">Norwich&#8217;s<\/a> 11th signing of the season on Friday morning, with a loan move from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/search\/Burnley\" target=\"_self\">Burnley<\/a>. The deal can be made permanent if the Norfolk team achieves promotion this year.<\/p>\n<h2>Norwich City Secure Gibson Loan.<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udfe1 A new yellow \ud83d\udfe1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeGibbo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeGibbo<\/a> \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yBrjOwbgaJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/yBrjOwbgaJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorwichCityFC\/status\/1301952736288702466?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>Burnley Frustrations<\/h3>\n<p>The 27-year-old only made one top-flight appearance since his \u00a315m move in the summer of 2018. Gibson struggled to kick on with the Clarets, receiving a harsh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/aug\/23\/burnley-olympiakos-europa-league-play-off-first-leg-match-report\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sending off in Athens<\/a> against Olympiakos. In addition, suffering two hernia operations, sidelining him for a long period.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson was then left with the task of dislodging the reliable duo of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/29\/burnley-extend-mee-stay-by-one-year\/\" target=\"_self\">Ben Mee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/01\/11\/ftn-latest-on-james-tarkowski-okazaki-coutinho-and-mitrovic\/\" target=\"_self\">James Tarkowski<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/burnley\/\" target=\"_self\">Burnley<\/a> boss <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/search\/sean+Dyche\" target=\"_self\">Dyche<\/a> admitted that he could understand Gibson&#8217;s frustration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/sean-dyche-say-ben-gibsons-17743713\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>: &#8220;We certainly have and had very good centre halves, of which he is one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he couldn&#8217;t find a way into the team, and then frustration can be built on that.&#8221; Gibson looked for a move in January, with hometown Middlesbrough interested in regaining his services. The move fell away and Gibson was sent to train with Middlesbrough U23s until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h3>New Beginning<\/h3>\n<p>Gibson has plenty of experience when coming to a<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/championship\/\" target=\"_self\"> championship<\/a> campaign. Gibson achieved promotion with club <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/search\/Middlesbrough\" target=\"_self\">Middlesbrough<\/a> in 205\/16, becoming a standout player that season. He then went onto appear for Middlesbrough in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_self\">premier league<\/a>, achieving a first senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/middlesbroughs-ben-gibson-called-up-12749748\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">England<\/a> call up.<\/p>\n<p>The defender can&#8217;t wait to start, telling Norwich&#8217;s official website. &#8220;I&#8217;m absolutely delighted I&#8217;ve been desperate to play football for a couple of years now, so a fresh start is exactly what I need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gibson sees himself as an ambitious player looking for a challenge. He sees Norwich as ambitious and stated he wants to get them &#8220;back where they belong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson will wear shirt number 34, as he joins up with his fellow teammates in what is a career lifeline for the defender.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"vt7P51IZRCBoYhCCJYSblg\" 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\/1089533030\" 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:'vt7P51IZRCBoYhCCJYSblg',sig:'_fW-je70klch-PwvpLlE0vO-TOQIQ9uwFXwU_6T8qS4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1089533030',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English defender Ben Gibson was unveiled as Norwich&#8217;s 11th signing of the season on Friday morning, with a loan move from Burnley. The deal can be made permanent if the Norfolk team achieves promotion this year. Norwich City Secure Gibson Loan. \ud83d\udfe1 A new yellow \ud83d\udfe1 \ud83e\udd29 #WelcomeGibbo \ud83e\udd29 pic.twitter.com\/yBrjOwbgaJ \u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3641,"featured_media":564809,"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":[32,10,33,2,30,1370,3,28],"tags":[5101,6574,482,5491,1317,239,1679,237,614,136],"class_list":["post-564800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-burnley","category-championship","category-featured","category-news","category-norwich-city","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-2020-2021-premier-league","tag-ben-gibson","tag-burnley","tag-burnley-fc","tag-daniel-farke","tag-efl-championship","tag-norwich","tag-norwich-city","tag-sean-dyche","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564800","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\/3641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}