{"id":583116,"date":"2021-02-09T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=583116"},"modified":"2021-02-09T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:22:35","slug":"jacob-ramsey-signs-new-aston-villa-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/09\/jacob-ramsey-signs-new-aston-villa-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Ramsey Signs New Aston Villa Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/aston-villa-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Aston Villa<\/a>&#8216;s young midfielder Jacob Ramsey has signed a new deal which will see him stay at the club until 2025. The four-and-a-half-year deal is testament to the confidence that Aston Villa have in the 19-year-old academy graduate.<\/p>\n<h2>Jacob Ramsey Pens New Aston Villa Deal<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacobRamsey28?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JacobRamsey28<\/a>! \ud83d\udc9c<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old midfielder has signed a new four-and-a-half year contract with Aston Villa, keeping him at the club until 2025. \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1359140105911427074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Ramsey Signs Until 2025<\/h3>\n<p>The contract extension was announced on Aston Villa&#8217;s official Twitter account and the central midfielder will be hoping to become a first-team regular in the coming years, having made eight appearances for a Villa team whose academy he joined aged six.<\/p>\n<p>Ramsey made his first <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/19\/arsenal-talent-bukayo-saka-continues-to-impress\/\" target=\"_self\">Premier League<\/a> start in December 2020 against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/wolves-club-analysis-news-fixtures\/\" target=\"_self\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a>, in an impressive 1-0 win for the Birmingham based club. He came in for the injured Ross Barkley and boss <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/15\/aston-villa-boss-dean-smith-wins-manager-of-the-month-award\/\" target=\"_self\">Dean Smith<\/a> insisted post-match that he had no qualms about trusting Ramsey despite his age, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/aston-villa-transfer-jacob-ramsey-19802075\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got young JJ (Jacob Ramsey) here for instance. I didn&#8217;t have a problem putting him in against Wolves because he was training well enough and, if they&#8217;re standing out in training, then they&#8217;ve got every chance of starting games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Jacob Ramsey&#8217;s Emergence Led to Conor Hourihane&#8217;s Departure<\/h3>\n<p>Dean Smith&#8217;s decision to play Ramsey from the start against Wolves ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/19\/conor-hourihane-set-to-join-swansea-city-on-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Conor Hourihane<\/a> was key to the Irishman&#8217;s decision to seek a loan move away from the club.<\/p>\n<p>Hourihane joined Swansea City in January on a short-term loan deal and speaking on his decision to leave Villa he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/aston-villa-transfer-jacob-ramsey-19802075\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>: &#8220;I&#8217;m always honest, and it was when we played Wolves away. Ross (Barkley) was injured and the gaffer played Jacob Ramsey ahead of me, the young lad from the academy which I was very disappointed with. That was probably the moment where I thought, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to struggle here a little bit moving forward&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Villa&#8217;s season going from strength the strength Ramsey will hope to be a part of a continuing rise off the back of a difficult few years for his boyhood club. The England U20 international looks set to have a bright future ahead of him and Villa Park could be the perfect place to nurture that, especially with the influence of the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/12\/03\/report-jack-grealish-valued-at-100-million-by-aston-villa\/\" target=\"_self\">Jack Grealish<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/01\/31\/aston-villa-not-in-talks-over-extending-ross-barkley-stay\/\" target=\"_self\"> Ross Barkley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"xfmsIC6wTzx5H_MLh9BKhg\" 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\/1298177689\" 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:'xfmsIC6wTzx5H_MLh9BKhg',sig:'sfiA5wuteEtgCj9kCfTQ79Zbk6p0IfWEvmw043pvmpI=',w:'594px',h:'392px',items:'1298177689',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>Aston Villa&#8216;s young midfielder Jacob Ramsey has signed a new deal which will see him stay at the club until 2025. The four-and-a-half-year deal is testament to the confidence that Aston Villa have in the 19-year-old academy graduate. Jacob Ramsey Pens New Aston Villa Deal Congratulations, @JacobRamsey28! \ud83d\udc9c The 19-year-old midfielder has signed a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3762,"featured_media":583147,"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":[3,3838,30],"tags":[8195,2023,2138,4829,302,4919],"class_list":["post-583116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-aston-villa","category-news","tag-aston-villa-news","tag-dean-smith","tag-jack-grealish","tag-jacob-ramsey","tag-ross-barkley","tag-world-footbal"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583116","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\/3762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}