{"id":577402,"date":"2021-01-05T06:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=577402"},"modified":"2021-01-05T06:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:02:38","slug":"middlesbrough-sign-goalkeeper-jordan-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/05\/middlesbrough-sign-goalkeeper-jordan-archer\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough Sign Goalkeeper Jordan Archer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middlesbrough have completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/football-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_self\">signing<\/a> of former Millwall goalkeeper Jordan Archer. The 27-year-old, whose most recent spell was in the Scottish Premiership with Motherwell, joins on a deal until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h2>Jordan Archer Signs for Middlesbrough<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Boro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Boro<\/a>, Jordan! \u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UTB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UTB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Middlesbrough FC (@Boro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Boro\/status\/1346388487952592899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Archer a Player Warnock Has Always &#8216;Liked&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Archer will be best known to EFL fans for his time at Millwall, where he made over 150 appearances in a four-year spell. Since then, he has had three other clubs but failed to settle anywhere, making just 12 appearances in total.<\/p>\n<p>However, since his days with the Lions, Boro boss Neil Warnock has liked what he has seen, and he was delighted to be able to bring Archer to the Riverside Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfc.co.uk\/news\/goalkeeper-jordan-archer-joins-the-boro\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve looked at Jordan the last few years. Ever since he was at Millwall, he\u2019s a player I\u2019ve liked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDejan made it clear to me that he wants to go and play to try and get in the Austria team for the Euros and reluctantly I agreed to that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought why not give Jordan the opportunity to show us what he can do over the next few months and I\u2019m delighted to have him on board.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Stojanovic Departs<\/h3>\n<p>As Warnock alluded to, Archer comes in to replace Dejan Stojanovic, who leaves less than a year after joining the club.<\/p>\n<p>The Austria international has joined German second division side St Pauli on a deal until the end of the season in a bid to try and push into the Austria squad for this year&#8217;s European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being signed for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/dejan-stojanovic-leaves-middlesbrough-loan-19563800\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported fee<\/a> of \u00a31 million, Warnock was not convinced by Stojanovic and he was dropped to the bench in place of loan signing Marcus Betinelli in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Mx7p3kfGRRJkVUUuz3UYuQ\" 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\/1126280107\" 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:'Mx7p3kfGRRJkVUUuz3UYuQ',sig:'SzHhNw7FSDrN-HkV8S1M20cL-UNVvMKYo4PTfGqLnM8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1126280107',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>Middlesbrough have completed the signing of former Millwall goalkeeper Jordan Archer. The 27-year-old, whose most recent spell was in the Scottish Premiership with Motherwell, joins on a deal until the end of the season. Jordan Archer Signs for Middlesbrough &nbsp; Welcome to #Boro, Jordan! \u270d\ufe0f #UTB \u2014 Middlesbrough FC (@Boro) January 5, 2021 Archer a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":577407,"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":[168,1297,4657,347,409,136],"class_list":["post-577402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-news","category-transfers","tag-efl","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-jordan-archer","tag-middlesbrough","tag-neil-warnock","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577402","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=577402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}