{"id":573314,"date":"2020-11-27T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=573314"},"modified":"2020-12-21T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:02:36","slug":"wycombe-wanderers-sign-former-chelsea-youngster-james-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/27\/wycombe-wanderers-sign-former-chelsea-youngster-james-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Wycombe Wanderers Sign Former Chelsea Youngster James Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=wycombe\" target=\"_self\">Wycombe Wanderers<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wycombewanderers.co.uk\/news\/2020\/november\/former-chelsea-youngster-joins-the-chairboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed former Chelsea youngster James Clark until the end of the season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 19-year old arrives at Adams Park following a successful trial with the Championship club and featured in a recent practice match against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/bournemouth\/\" target=\"_self\">Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Wycombe Wanderers Complete Signing of James Clark<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former Chelsea youngster James Clark joins the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chairboys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Chairboys<\/a> on a deal until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, James!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wycombe Wanderers (@wwfcofficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwfcofficial\/status\/1332282655866548225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Clark\u2019s Journey: Academy Rejection to the Championship<\/h3>\n<p>Clark, a versatile fullback who can play in both left and right-back positions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/2019\/03\/22\/teenage-kicks--james-clark\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">started his academy career aged nine<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=queens+park+rangers\" target=\"_self\">Queen\u2019s Park Rangers<\/a> but was released a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>After being picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=brentford\" target=\"_self\">Brentford<\/a> at the age of 12, Clark was converted from central midfield to defence before once again suffering the disappointment of being released.<\/p>\n<p>However, he wasn\u2019t out of football for long, catching the eye of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a>\u2019s scouts whilst playing for local side Leatherhead. Clark went on to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/james-clark\/leistungsdatendetails\/spieler\/580766\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">23 appearances for the Blues\u2019 U18s<\/a> before being released earlier this summer without making a senior appearance.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Tough Start to Championship Life for Newly Promoted Wycombe<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>After beating <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=oxford+united\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United<\/a> in the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/league12\/\" target=\"_self\"> League One<\/a> playoffs to secure promotion in July, Wycombe have struggled to adjust to life in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/league-football\/championship\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Choirboys lost their opening seven matches of the season, conceding 15 goals and scoring just two.<\/p>\n<p>However, after drawing against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/premier-league\/watford\/\" target=\"_self\">Watford<\/a> in October to pick up their first point of the season, Wycombe are unbeaten in five matches. Following a run of three draws and two wins, the Choirboys sit three points from safety in 22nd position.<\/p>\n<p>Wycombe will be hoping to continue their good form on Saturday when they take on fellow strugglers <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=derby+county\" target=\"_self\">Derby County<\/a> at the iPro Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"xfkG80s9SqJscG-XMYhLqg\" 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\/1196547660\" 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:'xfkG80s9SqJscG-XMYhLqg',sig:'CFrVCcywh8XfJJztxSy21w6sw97CSjQTffGBKTVWllw=',w:'594px',h:'409px',items:'1196547660',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>Wycombe Wanderers have signed former Chelsea youngster James Clark until the end of the season. The 19-year old arrives at Adams Park following a successful trial with the Championship club and featured in a recent practice match against Bournemouth. Wycombe Wanderers Complete Signing of James Clark Former Chelsea youngster James Clark joins the #Chairboys on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3531,"featured_media":573330,"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":[32,33,30,28],"tags":[1904,197,46,1297,7108,136,1761],"class_list":["post-573314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-news","category-transfers","tag-academy","tag-championship","tag-chelsea","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-james-clark","tag-world-football","tag-wycombe-wanderers"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573314","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=573314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}