{"id":580790,"date":"2021-02-01T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=580790"},"modified":"2021-02-01T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T23:01:25","slug":"mk-dons-sign-will-grigg-on-loan-from-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/01\/mk-dons-sign-will-grigg-on-loan-from-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes Dons Sign Will Grigg on Loan From Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milton Keynes Dons have completed the signing of striker <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/26\/sunderland-flop-will-grigg-of-interest-to-football-league-clubs\/\" target=\"_self\">Will Grigg<\/a> on loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/sunderland\/\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland<\/a>. Grigg returns to the club he helped to League One promotion in the 2014\/15 season.<\/p>\n<p>The forward has had a torrid time on Wearside since a big-money move from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/26\/adam-long-signs-new-wigan-athletic-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Wigan Athletic<\/a> two years ago. He has failed to settle and his performances have suffered.<\/p>\n<p>A loan move to MK Dons is his chance to get his career back on track and rediscover the form he displayed earlier in his career.<\/p>\n<h2>MK Dons Complete Signing of Will Grigg on Loan<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He back!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DonDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DonDeal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jI7e3gqAzs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/jI7e3gqAzs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milton Keynes Dons (@MKDonsFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MKDonsFC\/status\/1356376795931672584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Dons Beat Off Competition to Sign Will Grigg<\/h3>\n<p>Last week, it was reported that Shrewsbury, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/19\/tom-james-joins-salford-city-on-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Salford City<\/a>, were interested in the Northern Ireland international.<\/p>\n<p>MK Dons boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miltonkeynes.co.uk\/sport\/football\/dons-are-not-hunt-sunderland-striker-will-grigg-3113961\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Russell Martin appeared to rule out making a move<\/a> for the 29-year-old, who played for the club on loan during the 2014\/15 season, where he scored 22 goals in 50 games. However, after it became apparent that a deal with Shrewsbury had stalled, the Dons pounced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"markup sc-crNyjn hzbTkb\">\n<p>Grigg has not scored for Sunderland so far this season and has hit the net just eight times in 61 appearances for the Black Cats.<\/p>\n<h3>Lee Johnson Had no Intention of Standing in Will Grigg&#8217;s Way<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/26\/hibernian-left-back-josh-doig-sunderland\/\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland<\/a> head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/25\/sunderland-round-up-lee-johnsons-search-for-attacking-reinforcements-continues\/\" target=\"_self\">Lee Johnson,<\/a> who has had little time to work with Will Grigg due to injury, was not willing to stand in the way of the striker, should an acceptable offer be received. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandecho.com\/sport\/football\/sunderland-afc\/lee-johnson-gives-sunderland-transfer-update-and-outlines-his-stance-will-griggs-uncertain-future-3113982\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He said<\/a>: &#8220;I have had discussions with Will and I think he feels it hasn&#8217;t gone as well as he&#8217;d hoped it would in the last 18 months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"markup sc-crNyjn hzbTkb\">\n<p>&#8220;If there&#8217;s a challenge and a change that suits all parties in the short term, we might have a look at it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"markup sc-crNyjn hzbTkb\">\n<p>&#8220;Saying that, me personally, I am more than happy having Will Grigg as one of my four strikers, and a fit, motivated version which you would hope to get considering he&#8217;s been out of the team with that injury for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"weh9Q3DoSXp-eKpE3u98iw\" 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\/1291566770\" 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:'weh9Q3DoSXp-eKpE3u98iw',sig:'PyouMKLs488wYtEKEFDsnymLM04Y_A7pSrMY-0_sk5s=',w:'594px',h:'406px',items:'1291566770',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>Shrewsbury Town have beat off competition to sign Sunderland striker Will Grigg on loan for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":581577,"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":[32,34,22,28],"tags":[657,90,165,35,6579,1179,762,136],"class_list":["post-580790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-sunderland","category-transfers","tag-efl-league-one","tag-fifa","tag-mk-dons","tag-sunderland","tag-sunderland-transfer-news","tag-transfer-news","tag-will-grigg","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580790","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}