{"id":580461,"date":"2021-01-25T11:54:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=580461"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:55:29","slug":"grimsby-town-confirm-stefan-payne-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/25\/grimsby-town-confirm-stefan-payne-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimsby Town Confirm Stefan Payne Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grimsby Town have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk\/sport\/grimsby-town-sign-striker-stefan-4926829\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed the signing<\/a> of striker <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/78877135\/Stefan-Payne?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stefan Payne<\/a> on a deal until the end of the season. The towering forward joins from League Two counterparts Tranmere Rovers and becomes <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f8ac4ab1\/Paul-Hurst?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Hurst<\/a>&#8216;s fourth signing this window.<\/p>\n<h2>Stefan Payne Completes Grimsby Town Move<\/h2>\n<h3>Hurst and Payne Re-United Once Again at Grimsby Town<\/h3>\n<p>Payne is a player that manager Hurst knows from Shrewsbury Town, proving to be a key factor when deciding to bring the 29-year-old in. He also knows the Football League very well and has played Championship football with Barnsley. His other clubs include <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/fulham\/\" target=\"_self\">Fulham<\/a>, Bristol Rovers and Shrewsbury &#8211; a spell where he was acquainted with Hurst.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent time with Tranmere Rovers, only saw Payne make 18 appearances in an injury-hit spell with the Wirral club, scoring just five goals in that time. But, the 29-year-old is now returning to full fitness and is back playing under a manager who will trust him more and will look to integrate him into the starting side from the onset.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk\/news\/2021\/january\/payne-signs-for-the-mariners\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grimsby Town website<\/a>, Paul Hurst said: &#8220;There&#8217;s no getting away from the fact that we&#8217;ve been on the lookout for a centre forward. He has just come back from a long term injury, but he looks in pretty good shape. After speaking to him, he is keen to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got a little bit of everything. He&#8217;s a strong player, he&#8217;s quick and he&#8217;s certainly got a little bit of edge to him. We had a successful time with him, hence the reason for getting him here and we fought off a bit of competition to get him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that he can give everyone a boost within the group. Hopefully, we can get him fit and firing and get us some goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Wd0tRAvzQBxDBoj4t6RbPA\" 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\/1228793507\" 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:'Wd0tRAvzQBxDBoj4t6RbPA',sig:'C4YHvj_aoWtuIq3jgbh0xOpIFzz7b7aRws2HYrEgebY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1228793507',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>Grimsby Town have confirmed the signing of striker Stefan Payne on a deal until the end of the season. The towering forward joins from League Two counterparts Tranmere Rovers and becomes Paul Hurst&#8216;s fourth signing this window. Stefan Payne Completes Grimsby Town Move Hurst and Payne Re-United Once Again at Grimsby Town Payne is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":580473,"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":[34,32,28],"tags":[827,2670,520,1825,1402,7839,2662,136],"class_list":["post-580461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-league-football","category-transfers","tag-efl-league-two","tag-grimsby-town","tag-league-two","tag-paul-hurst","tag-shrewsbury-town","tag-stefan-payne","tag-tranmere-rovers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580461","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}