{"id":568722,"date":"2020-10-05T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=568722"},"modified":"2020-10-05T19:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:29:54","slug":"reading-tomas-esteves-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/05\/reading-tomas-esteves-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Sign Portuguese Right Back On-Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/tag\/reading\/\" target=\"_self\">Reading<\/a> have signed 18-year-old right-back Tomas Esteves on-loan from Portuguese side <a href=\"\/tag\/fc-porto\/\" target=\"_self\">FC Porto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Tomas Esteves Joins Championship Side Reading<\/h2>\n<h3>Teenage Defender Links Up With Reading<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/category\/championship\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a> side Reading have secured a season-long loan deal with Porto for young defender Tomas Esteves.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old full-back is currently on international duty with the Portugal Under-20 squad, but will link up with his new team-mates next week.<\/p>\n<p>Esteves came through the youth ranks with Porto, going on to win the UEFA Youth League in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He broke into the first team last season, taking the number 2 shirt when he made his debut in a Taca da Liga victory. His <a href=\"\/tag\/primeira-lag\/\" target=\"_self\">Primeira Liga<\/a> debut came in June with a draw against Clube Desportivo das Aves.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager has shown a talent for a number of years, breaking into the Portugal U21s just over a year ago despite being just 17.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after signing the talented youngster, Royals boss <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/7d0ae66f\/Veljko-Paunovic?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Veljko Paunovic<\/a> said: &#8220;Tomas is a young, talented, versatile full-back, full of promise, potential and a real hunger to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will add good competition for places amongst our squad and I am delighted he has agreed to join us at Reading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish him well during his time with his country this week, we look forward to welcoming him to Bearwood and I am excited to start working with him as part of this special group of players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/ed6bb087\/Marc-McNulty?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc McNulty<\/a> Swaps Royals For Scotland<\/h3>\n<p>Newly-promoted <a href=\"\/tag\/scottish-premiership\/\" target=\"_self\">Scottish Premiership<\/a> side <a href=\"\/tag\/dundee-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Dundee United<\/a> have signed Marc McNulty on a season-long loan for the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old joined the Royals in 2018 but has struggled for first-team opportunities in Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p>He spent spells with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/sunderland\/\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland<\/a> and <a href=\"\/tag\/hibernian\/\" target=\"_self\">Hibernian<\/a> last season, and the Edinburgh-born forward has returned north of the border.<\/p>\n<p>During his time with Reading, he scored once in 15 appearances, of which six were starts.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"HYOU_ePqRl57qq7mVpyGaw\" 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\/1186649513\" 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:'HYOU_ePqRl57qq7mVpyGaw',sig:'Y9vyv5kRvNvAkfuu7RjwMzKJowMURcbjGPSp7JkobfY=',w:'594px',h:'394px',items:'1186649513',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>Reading have signed 18-year-old right-back Tomas Esteves on-loan from Portuguese side FC Porto. Tomas Esteves Joins Championship Side Reading Teenage Defender Links Up With Reading Championship side Reading have secured a season-long loan deal with Porto for young defender Tomas Esteves. The 18-year-old full-back is currently on international duty with the Portugal Under-20 squad, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":568733,"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":[32,33,28],"tags":[197,168,367,540,6816,136],"class_list":["post-568722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-transfers","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-porto","tag-reading","tag-tomas-esteves","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568722","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\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}