{"id":569658,"date":"2020-10-16T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=569658"},"modified":"2020-10-16T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:02:01","slug":"dwight-mcneil-extends-burnley-contract-to-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/16\/dwight-mcneil-extends-burnley-contract-to-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwight McNeil Extends Burnley Contract to 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=burnley\" target=\"_self\">Burnley<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/fc15fb84\/Dwight-McNeil\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dwight McNeil<\/a> has signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burnleyfootballclub.com\/content\/mcneil-signs-new-turf-moor-deal\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12-month contract extension<\/a> to keep him at the club until June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The new contract also includes the option of a further year at Turf Moor for the 20-year old.<\/p>\n<p>McNeil is the third Burnley player to commit his future to the club this summer, following team-mates <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/495945ef\/Ashley-Westwood\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashley Westwood<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/8df7a2fb\/Ben-Mee\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Mee.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dwight McNeil Extends Burnley Contract<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>What Was Said?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burnleyfootballclub.com\/content\/mcneil-signs-new-turf-moor-deal\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McNeil said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m delighted to sign a new contract. I love playing for the club and it\u2019s a club I want to be at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great position to be in and I couldn\u2019t have asked for more help from the lads, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy focus was always to be a Burnley player and carry on doing what I\u2019m doing because I love the club, I love the team and playing for the gaffer and that\u2019s what I want to carry on doing.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his Burnley career so far, he added: \u201cI\u2019m so happy and fortunate to have been in the team but I think I\u2019ve also showed what I\u2019m capable of doing and I just want to keep doing that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve become more experienced and understand myself more as a person on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to do the same as last year now and continue to be part of the team throughout the year. I just want to play football.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Rising Star<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>At Burnley from the age of 14, McNeil made his debut for the club against Olympiakos in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=europa+league\" target=\"_self\">Europa League<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=premier+league\" target=\"_self\">Premier League<\/a>, the England U21 international played 21 matches, scoring three goals and registering five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Now firmly a first-team regular, McNeil was ever-present for Burnley last season, scoring two goals and providing six assists to help his side to a tenth-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"bnngAs66RkBfcP_H1hWptg\" 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\/1227405634\" 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:'bnngAs66RkBfcP_H1hWptg',sig:'ytGOi7tAVebwomBJY8vSYdL_FEKaZxbq-V4xUoZoxts=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1227405634',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>Burnley midfielder Dwight McNeil has signed a 12-month contract extension to keep him at the club until June 2024. The new contract also includes the option of a further year at Turf Moor for the 20-year old. McNeil is the third Burnley player to commit his future to the club this summer, following team-mates Ashley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3531,"featured_media":569677,"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":[30,10,3],"tags":[482,3685,40,614,136],"class_list":["post-569658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-burnley","category-premier-league","tag-burnley","tag-dwight-mcneil","tag-premier-league","tag-sean-dyche","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569658","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\/3531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}