{"id":575799,"date":"2020-12-26T11:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=575799"},"modified":"2020-12-28T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:24:16","slug":"southend-united-sign-winger-louis-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/12\/26\/southend-united-sign-winger-louis-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Southend United Sign Winger Louis Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southend United have completed the signing of free agent Louis Walsh. The 20-year-old winger left Championship side Nottingham Forest in the summer having previously had spells at Barnsley and Guiseley. Walsh, who has signed an 18-month deal, was on the bench for Mark Molesley&#8217;s side this afternoon as they triumphed in an Essex Derby, beating Colchester United 2-0.<\/p>\n<h2>Louis Walsh Signs for Southend United<\/h2>\n<h3>A Long Time Coming<\/h3>\n<p>Walsh trained with Southend in the summer but financial issues and a transfer embargo prevented the club from completing a deal. With the club&#8217;s immediate future secured and the embargo lifted, though, they were able to complete registrations for Sam Hart and Simeon Akinola and have now added Walsh to the squad too.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southendunited.co.uk\/news\/2020\/december\/blues-complete-signing-of-winger-louis-walsh\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blues manager Molesley said<\/a>: \u201cEarlier on in the season he came in for a month, so we had a good look at him and really liked him but weren\u2019t in a position to be able to do something then,\u201d said Molesley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s at a good age, got huge potential and has great attributes. We\u2019re looking at him in a few positions, predominantly at the moment as a wide man but we feel that he can play up front too, and presents an exciting opportunity to the club to hopefully grow that potential into him being a real asset to the football club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walsh himself added: \u201cI\u2019m delighted, it\u2019s been a long time coming. I\u2019ve been waiting for this opportunity of first team football and the chance to show what I can do on a bigger platform than before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that I\u2019ve been pushing for, for a long time. I felt like I should have had opportunities elsewhere which didn\u2019t come and that\u2019s football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a terrible start to the League Two season following relegation from League One last term, Southend look like they have turned a corner and are now unbeaten in five games.<\/p>\n<p>Wins against Scunthorpe United, Grimsby Town and today against Colchester have taken the Blues to within three points of safety and put Stevenage back to the foot of the table.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"l6XalhrpSEpAutfkbenXCg\" 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\/1272101080\" 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:'l6XalhrpSEpAutfkbenXCg',sig:'8AXCPeECxteQ3sebRCOrxL06zaWPwPmOTATbsiyOqn0=',w:'594px',h:'395px',items:'1272101080',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>Southend United have completed the signing of free agent Louis Walsh. The 20-year-old winger left Championship side Nottingham Forest in the summer having previously had spells at Barnsley and Guiseley. Walsh, who has signed an 18-month deal, was on the bench for Mark Molesley&#8217;s side this afternoon as they triumphed in an Essex Derby, beating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":575800,"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":[168,520,7264,505,136],"class_list":["post-575799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-league-two","tag-louis-walsh","tag-southend-united","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575799","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}