{"id":577706,"date":"2021-01-06T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=577706"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:54:22","slug":"doncaster-rovers-elliot-simoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/06\/doncaster-rovers-elliot-simoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncaster Rovers Seal Loan Deal for Elliot Simoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doncaster Rovers have signed Barnsley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/92bdd62b\/Elliot-Simoes\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elliot Simoes<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/football-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_self\">loan<\/a> until the end of the current season.<\/p>\n<h2>Elliot Simoes Joins Doncaster Rovers on Loan<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to Rovers, Elliot Simoes! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DRFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DRFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oe9pnNwqkD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/oe9pnNwqkD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ec8Hlicyal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ec8Hlicyal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doncaster Rovers FC (@drfc_official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drfc_official\/status\/1346849009483329538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Featured for Barnsley in Championship<\/h3>\n<p>The League One side have confirmed the deal in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk\/news\/2021\/january\/welcome-elliot-simoes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement on their website,<\/a>\u00a0with the player now able to get more regular first-team football in the third tier of English football.<\/p>\n<p>Simoes has played 25 times for parent club Barnsley so far and has even bagged three goals along the way. However, he&#8217;s started just ten of those games and with game time harder to come by this season (he&#8217;s started just four times so far this campaign) he can now play on a more regular basis for Doncaster.<\/p>\n<h3>Played for Benfica as Youngster<\/h3>\n<p>As a youngster, the Portuguese man played in his native country for Benfica and then made the switch to England to play in non-league. He has steadily made his way up the tiers in England and now finds himself playing regularly in the Football League.<\/p>\n<p>The League One outfit are currently flying high in the league, sitting in fourth place. They are eight points off first-placed Lincoln City but have two games in hand on the club and, if they win them, they&#8217;d close the gap to just two points.<\/p>\n<h3>Doncaster Will Hope Simoes Can Help With Promotion Bid<\/h3>\n<p>Having won four of their last five games and with the side desperate to try and push on and potentially secure promotion to the Championship &#8211; a league they haven&#8217;t been in since the 2013\/14 campaign &#8211; Simoes represents a solid piece of business as they aim to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, during that time they even spent a year in League Two, only to gain instant promotion back into the third tier.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in as a winger, Simoes definitely represents another solid option both in terms of goals and assists for the club and the fans will surely be hoping he can help fire them to promotion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"0OqZdDywQAhNS68E7j245w\" 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\/1191325996\" 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:'0OqZdDywQAhNS68E7j245w',sig:'-woaJpwHOS18_goZ2cUGCGiivqas5E_vJHCT4DTjYHc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1191325996',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>Doncaster Rovers have signed Barnsley&#8217;s Elliot Simoes on loan until the end of the current season. Elliot Simoes Joins Doncaster Rovers on Loan &nbsp; Welcome to Rovers, Elliot Simoes! #DRFC https:\/\/t.co\/oe9pnNwqkD pic.twitter.com\/ec8Hlicyal \u2014 Doncaster Rovers FC (@drfc_official) January 6, 2021 Featured for Barnsley in Championship The League One side have confirmed the deal in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3562,"featured_media":577721,"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":[32,33,34,30,28],"tags":[1721,197,294,7458,168,7456,7457,1297,188,37,136],"class_list":["post-577706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-barnsley","tag-championship","tag-doncaster-rovers","tag-doncaster-transfers","tag-efl","tag-elliot-simoes","tag-elliot-simoes-doncaster","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-league-one","tag-transfers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577706","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\/3562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}