{"id":569763,"date":"2020-10-16T13:19:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T17:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=569763"},"modified":"2020-12-21T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:02:49","slug":"blackpool-sign-kenny-dougall-until-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/16\/blackpool-sign-kenny-dougall-until-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool Sign Kenny Dougall Until 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=blackpool\" target=\"_self\">Blackpool<\/a> have signed midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/ddbeed7f\/Kenneth-Dougall\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenny Dougall<\/a> on a two-year contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/october\/kenny-dougall-joins-on-two-year-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the club announced earlier this afternoon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year old Australian arrives at Bloomfield Road from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=barnsley\" target=\"_self\">Barnsley<\/a> after spending two seasons at Oakwell.<\/p>\n<h2>Blackpool Sign Kenny Dougall on Two-Year Deal<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcdd Midfielder Kenny Dougall arrives on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf4a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTMP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UTMP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ETVEktwxhu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ETVEktwxhu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RMjrhI4WhI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/RMjrhI4WhI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blackpool FC (@BlackpoolFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackpoolFC\/status\/1317134656375062529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Dougall Happy to Join &#8216;Ambitious&#8217; Club<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpoolfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/october\/kenny-dougall-joins-on-two-year-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaking to the club website, Dougall said:<\/a> \u201cI spoke to the gaffer and his philosophy about the way he wants to play football is really attractive and something I wanted to be a part of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ambition of the Club speaks for itself &#8211; they\u2019re bringing in new faces and want to have a go this year. It\u2019s something that attracted me so I\u2019m really happy I\u2019m here now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Blackpool manager, Neil Critchley, expressed his pleasure at securing the experienced midfielder\u2019s services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenny is a player we have been tracking throughout the summer, who brings a good amount of experience to the squad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe spent a number of years in the top-flight of Dutch football, before moving to Barnsley and helping them gain promotion from League One.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis positional play and ability to connect the team together from midfield will be valuable assets to the team. We worked hard to identify a player of Kenny\u2019s personality and quality, and we are delighted he has decided to join us.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>From Brisbane to Blackpool<\/h3>\n<p>Originally hailing from Brisbane, Dougall joined Dutch second division side Telstar in 2014 before moving to Sparta Rotterdam a year later.<\/p>\n<p>The former Australia Under-21 international spent three seasons at The Castle, securing promotion to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=eredivisie\" target=\"_self\">Eredivisie<\/a> in his debut campaign.<\/p>\n<p>After 81 appearances for the Dutch side, Dougall moved to Barnsley and helped the Tykes achieve promotion to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/championship\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a> in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>Dougall joins a Blackpool side currently lying 22<sup>nd<\/sup> in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_self\">League One<\/a> having won just one of their opening five fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"dIPdDrYSRSVT3Kamrz30Jw\" 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\/1183593065\" 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:'dIPdDrYSRSVT3Kamrz30Jw',sig:'WRIB3nbyexBnbZd-U_W2JT9OcCc7MD4jR4ttQ-_FhFw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1183593065',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>Blackpool have signed midfielder Kenny Dougall on a two-year contract, the club announced earlier this afternoon. The 27-year old Australian arrives at Bloomfield Road from Barnsley after spending two seasons at Oakwell. Blackpool Sign Kenny Dougall on Two-Year Deal \ud83d\udcdd Midfielder Kenny Dougall arrives on a two-year contract. \ud83c\udf4a #UTMP https:\/\/t.co\/ETVEktwxhu pic.twitter.com\/RMjrhI4WhI \u2014 Blackpool FC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3531,"featured_media":569786,"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":[1721,980,168,1297,6881,188,37,136],"class_list":["post-569763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-barnsley","tag-blackpool","tag-efl","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-kenny-dougall","tag-league-one","tag-transfers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569763","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=569763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}