{"id":578885,"date":"2021-01-14T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=578885"},"modified":"2021-01-14T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:07:33","slug":"cardiff-city-winger-gavin-whyte-joins-hull-city-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/14\/cardiff-city-winger-gavin-whyte-joins-hull-city-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City Winger Gavin Whyte Joins Hull City on Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">League One side Hull City have confirmed the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/cardiff-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Cardiff City<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/1100b177\/Gavin-Whyte\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gavin Whyte<\/a> on loan until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Gavin Whyte Joins Hull City on Loan<\/h2>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Tough Time at Cardiff for Whyte<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc4b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeWhyte?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeWhyte<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hcafc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#hcafc<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/theTigers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#theTigers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ShXk4EVsvl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ShXk4EVsvl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hull City (@HullCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HullCity\/status\/1349785857394282500?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<p dir=\"ltr\">Gavin Whyte joined Cardiff in the summer of 2019 following a breakthrough season at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/tag\/oxford-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United<\/a>. The Northern Ireland international had only joined the U&#8217;s the season before from NIFL Premiership side Crusaders, but managed nine goals and seven assists in his first season in the Football League.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was during his time at Oxford that he earned international recognition, and his since gone on to earn ten caps and score two goals.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a result, the Bluebirds swooped in and prized the now 24-year-old away for a fee in the region of \u00a32 million.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, a change of manager and lack of game time has affected his form and has managed just one goal and one assist from 37 outings since his arrival in South Wales.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Hull City Reaction<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hullcitytigers.com\/news\/2021\/january\/gavin-whyte-arrives-on-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soaking to the clubs&#8217; official website<\/a>, Tigers boss Grant McCann said: \u201cGavin will bring pace, energy and directness. He likes to get the ball and run at people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe\u2019s a full international and had a good time in Northern Ireland, a really good time at Oxford and followed that up with a move to Cardiff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been searching for a replacement for Hakeeb Adelakun and he will bring real pace and directness to the front three.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to get him and there was a lot of competition for him. We\u2019re delighted he\u2019s chosen us and he\u2019ll get the fans off their sofas because he\u2019s direct and likes to get at people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"1F6GsrjHSwZ8C5wGSoJKGA\" 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\/1230164199\" 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:'1F6GsrjHSwZ8C5wGSoJKGA',sig:'ebkEgHlk_Kn7rmEbaawyo8w9hLjuFdtRPg-dtbWtqrI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1230164199',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>League One side Hull City have confirmed the signing of Cardiff City winger Gavin Whyte on loan until the end of the season. Gavin Whyte Joins Hull City on Loan Tough Time at Cardiff for Whyte \ud83d\udc4b #WelcomeWhyte!#hcafc | #theTigers pic.twitter.com\/ShXk4EVsvl &mdash; Hull City (@HullCity) January 14, 2021 Gavin Whyte joined Cardiff in the summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":578888,"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":[14,2509,33,32,34,30,28],"tags":[38,197,168,3844,295,188,1179,136],"class_list":["post-578885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hull-city","category-cardiff-city","category-championship","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","tag-cardiff-city","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-gavin-whyte","tag-hull-city","tag-league-one","tag-transfer-news","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578885","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}