{"id":568646,"date":"2020-10-05T15:36:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=568646"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:36:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:36:03","slug":"barrow-complete-the-signing-of-chris-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/05\/barrow-complete-the-signing-of-chris-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrow Complete the Signing of Chris Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barrow have completed the signing of Chris Taylor, with the midfielder agreeing a short-term deal with the Cumbria-based side.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris Taylor Joins Barrow<\/h2>\n<h3>Experienced Midfielder<\/h3>\n<p>Taylor is Barrow&#8217;s 15th signing of the summer, and will add a wealth of experience to the Bluebirds&#8217; midfield.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old was most recently at Bradford City, where he was released at the end of the season. He made 14 appearances for the Bantams last season in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor began his career with hometown club Oldham Athletic, and amassed close to 300 appearances across a seven-year period with the Latics.<\/p>\n<p>His best season with Oldham came in the 2010\/11 campaign, as he scored 11 goals and registered eight assists to help his side finish 18th in League One.<\/p>\n<p>The now-33-year-old earned a move to the Championship, joining Millwall on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, he lasted just the solitary season at The New Den, as he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/16\/daniel-ayala-blackburn-rovers-free-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\">Blackburn Rovers<\/a> the following season. Taylor enjoyed a successful three seasons at Ewood Park, making 62 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking abut his new signing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrowafc.com\/news\/2020\/october\/051020-barrow-sign-former-oldham-athletic-midfielder-chris-taylor\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official Barrow website<\/a>, manager David Dunn said: &#8220;Chris has done really well in training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s looked really lively and I already know him from playing alongside him at Blackburn so I know how good a footballer he is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got experience, he\u2019s got a good energy and that makes him great to have around the place so I am looking forward to seeing him get the Barrow kit on and show everyone what he can do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got experience, he\u2019s got a good energy and that makes him great to have around the place so I am looking forward to seeing him get the Barrow kit on and show everyone what he can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barrow are currently 21st in League One, and are yet to earn their first win of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"FndDNmOmSqB054rPdnfIrA\" 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\/1132203091\" 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:'FndDNmOmSqB054rPdnfIrA',sig:'uJjXnNQ2P0c-ie-Vowz9K1zgwp-PrzO-xxx6Hjnba0E=',w:'594px',h:'382px',items:'1132203091',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>Barrow have completed the signing of Chris Taylor, with the midfielder agreeing a short-term deal with the Cumbria-based side. Chris Taylor Joins Barrow Experienced Midfielder Taylor is Barrow&#8217;s 15th signing of the summer, and will add a wealth of experience to the Bluebirds&#8217; midfield. The 33-year-old was most recently at Bradford City, where he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":568656,"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":[5693,6810,5861,168,136],"class_list":["post-568646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-barrow","tag-chris-taylor","tag-david-dunn","tag-efl","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568646","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=568646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}