{"id":594556,"date":"2021-06-22T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=594556"},"modified":"2021-12-27T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T16:43:39","slug":"norwich-city-milot-rashica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/06\/22\/norwich-city-milot-rashica\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City Complete Signing of Milot Raschia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly-promoted Norwich City have made their first signing back in the Premier League with the addition of Milot Rashica. The 24-year-old Kosovo international joins on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee from Bundesliga side Werder Bremen.<\/p>\n<h2>Milot Rashica Joins Norwich City<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ud83c\uddfd\ud83c\uddf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeRashica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeRashica<\/a> \ud83c\uddfd\ud83c\uddf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dJzZJ9stLI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/dJzZJ9stLI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorwichCityFC\/status\/1407352679387435008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Excited&#8217; for Premier League Chance<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, Rashica said: \u201cI\u2019m really excited to play in front of the Norwich fans and in the Premier League. I will of course give my best to this football club in every game and hope to excite the fans with many goals and assists. I can\u2019t wait to get started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cI know a few things about the club, particularly the style of play under Daniel Farke. I want to continue to learn and develop as a player and person and I think that the style of play here will suit me very well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u201cI have spoken with the boss and I know what he wants to see from me. Those conversations with him recently have been a big help and I am very excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Rashica came through the youth ranks at Kosovan side Vushtrria before going on to play 21 times for their first team between 2013 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He completed a move to Dutch side Vitesse in 2015, featuring in both the Eredivisie and Europa League, the latter of which he faced Norwich&#8217;s new Premier League counterparts <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/06\/03\/southampton-season-review\/\" target=\"_self\">Southampton<\/a> in.<\/p>\n<p>After three years in the Netherlands, Rashica moved to Germany to join Werder Bremen and quickly became one of the most sought-after youngsters in European football.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/06\/07\/emi-buendia-aston-villa-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Aston Villa<\/a> had also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/aston-villa-transfer-news-rashica-20664041\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">linked with<\/a> the Kosovan this summer as well as last summer. Instead, though, they opted to sign Norwich&#8217;s Emi Buendia, the man Rashica has come in to replace at Carrow Road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"2bcETNTjSExOyb7gZp4w-w\" 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\/1316973581\" 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:'2bcETNTjSExOyb7gZp4w-w',sig:'XlNurbbGIQXSsDTqeaPKSNFaQ2Q6iUEwvFfrUhOe7A0=',w:'594px',h:'387px',items:'1316973581',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>Newly-promoted Norwich City have made their first signing back in the Premier League with the addition of Milot Rashica. The 24-year-old Kosovo international joins on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee from Bundesliga side Werder Bremen. Milot Rashica Joins Norwich City \ud83c\uddfd\ud83c\uddf0 #WelcomeRashica \ud83c\uddfd\ud83c\uddf0 pic.twitter.com\/dJzZJ9stLI \u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) June 22, 2021 &#8216;Excited&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":594557,"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":[30,4,1370,3,28],"tags":[5750,270],"class_list":["post-594556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-bundesliga","category-norwich-city","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-milot-rashica","tag-werder-bremen"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594556","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=594556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}