{"id":578791,"date":"2021-01-14T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=578791"},"modified":"2021-01-14T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T15:50:50","slug":"stoke-city-sign-jack-clarke-on-loan-from-tottenham-hotspur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/14\/stoke-city-sign-jack-clarke-on-loan-from-tottenham-hotspur\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke City Sign Jack Clarke on Loan From Tottenham Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Championship side <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/07\/rabbi-matondo-joins-stoke-city-on-loan-from-schalke\/\" target=\"_self\">Stoke City<\/a> have completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/football-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_self\">signing<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/13\/impressive-fulham-frustrate-tottenham-hotspur-to-earn-deserved-point\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> winger Jack Clarke. The 20-year-old arrives on a loan deal until the end of the campaign and could be involved in the fixture against Blackburn Rovers this weekend.<\/p>\n<h2>Stoke Complete Jack Clarke Loan<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udc4b Welcome aboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackClarke09?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JackClarke09<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SCFC<\/a> \ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stoke City FC (@stokecity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stokecity\/status\/1349687745757794305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Stoke Getting Business Done<\/h3>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/02\/26\/stoke-city-woeful-return-championship\/\" target=\"_self\">hasn&#8217;t been an easy ride<\/a> for Stoke since their relegation to the Championship. In 2018\/19 and 2019\/20, they fought for their lives towards the bottom of the division, despite possessing some of the players that had been regular performers for them in the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>This season, though, has been different. The Potters sit eighth in the Championship under Michael O&#8217;Neill and are just a point behind Watford in the play-0ff places.<\/p>\n<p>In order to keep the squad fresh and motivated, Stoke have been doing good business in this transfer window, and Clarke joins Welsh pair Rabbi Matondo and Rhys Norrington-Davies in joining the club on loan until the end of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Matondo had been plying his trade in the Bundesliga with Schalke, while Norrington-Davies takes a jump up the league after parent club Sheffield United cut short his impressive stint with Luton Town to send him to the bet365 Stadium.<\/p>\n<h3>Clarke&#8217;s Career<\/h3>\n<p>Since bursting onto the scene with Leeds United and subsequently leaving for Spurs, Clarke&#8217;s young career has somewhat ground to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>He was loaned back to Leeds initially but couldn&#8217;t get back in the team, and another temporary switch to Queens Park Rangers also did not go to plan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to remember he is just 20-years-old, though, so needs time to further develop &#8211; and Stoke could be the perfect place for this.<\/p>\n<p>On his arrival, Potters boss<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stokecityfc.com\/news\/2021\/january\/Jack-seals-Potters-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> O&#8217;Neill said<\/a>: \u201cJack is an exciting young wide player who will bring an added dimension to our resources for the remainder of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"wWvgbESTRlxw97GDPxscyg\" 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\/1229812653\" 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:'wWvgbESTRlxw97GDPxscyg',sig:'7dG1g53-7X7Na4G1C2snUTZvoz6esYmPiVewsyjbw5A=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1229812653',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>Championship side Stoke City have completed the signing of Tottenham Hotspur winger Jack Clarke. The 20-year-old arrives on a loan deal until the end of the campaign and could be involved in the fixture against Blackburn Rovers this weekend. Stoke Complete Jack Clarke Loan &nbsp; \ud83d\udc4b Welcome aboard, @JackClarke09!#SCFC \ud83d\udd34\u26aa\ufe0f \u2014 Stoke City FC (@stokecity) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":578797,"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":[32,33,30,3,21,24,28],"tags":[197,168,1297,3158,40,356,96,136],"class_list":["post-578791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-news","category-premier-league","category-stoke","category-tottenham","category-transfers","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-football-transfer-news","tag-jack-clarke","tag-premier-league","tag-stoke-city","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578791","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=578791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}