{"id":596105,"date":"2021-07-13T07:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=596105"},"modified":"2021-07-13T07:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:20:32","slug":"norwich-city-pierre-lees-melou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/13\/norwich-city-pierre-lees-melou\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City Sign Pierre Lees-Melou From Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/02\/norwich-city-chelsea-midfielder-billy-gilmour\/\" target=\"_self\">Norwich City<\/a> have completed the signing of midfielder Pierre Lees-Melou from Nice for an undisclosed fee. The 28-year-old has signed a three-year deal with the Canaries to keep him at the club until 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Norwich Sign Pierre Lees-Melou<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BienvenuePierre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BienvenuePierre<\/a> \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YeH1CeZbR5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/YeH1CeZbR5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorwichCityFC\/status\/1414864676404350978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Lees-Melou &#8216;Can&#8217;t Wait&#8217; to Get Going<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canaries.co.uk\/News\/2021\/july\/city-complete-deal-for-lees-melou\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lees-Melou said<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m very excited to join Norwich City and discover my new future with the club and its fans. I can\u2019t wait to play football in Norwich colours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke with Daniel [Farke] and Stuart [Webber]. We had a very long conversation about football and the vision for the team. I\u2019ve heard a lot about how Norwich plays football in the right manner and style and also the club\u2019s spirit and mentality. I love that and that got me very excited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also spoke with Morgan Schneiderlin and Yoann Barbet about football in England. They spoke very highly of Norwich and the club\u2019s position and standing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate the opportunity in this club and wanted to get the move sorted and start quickly. I\u2019m excited to discover a new country, language and play in the biggest league in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1\ufe0f\u20e34\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e3 apps for Nice<br \/>\n1\ufe0f\u20e38\ufe0f\u20e3 goals<br \/>\n1\ufe0f\u20e36\ufe0f\u20e3 assists<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BienvenuePierre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BienvenuePierre<\/a> \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r7tYyKz7fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/r7tYyKz7fb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorwichCityFC\/status\/1414869708730507266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>After beginning his youth career with his hometown club of Langon, he made his senior bow with US Lege Cap Ferret in 2013, scoring 13 times in 50 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>This earned him a move to Dijon in 2015, where he added another nine goals to his career tally across a two-year spell.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 he moved to Nice, becoming a key player and serving as their vice-captain prior to his move to Norwich. He scored 20 goals in 119 appearances during a four-year stay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"2i_uswvgQ6FohmFKInSn1g\" 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\/1319880184\" 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:'2i_uswvgQ6FohmFKInSn1g',sig:'NyxI_ptjR5tlnpJyrc6-XaK4Cy2nc_xiAQ4rJVozNvU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1319880184',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>Norwich City have completed the signing of midfielder Pierre Lees-Melou from Nice for an undisclosed fee. The 28-year-old has signed a three-year deal with the Canaries to keep him at the club until 2024. Norwich Sign Pierre Lees-Melou &nbsp; \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 #BienvenuePierre \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 pic.twitter.com\/YeH1CeZbR5 \u2014 Norwich City FC (@NorwichCityFC) July 13, 2021 Lees-Melou &#8216;Can&#8217;t Wait&#8217; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":596106,"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":[30,7,1370,3,28],"tags":[125,8745],"class_list":["post-596105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ligue-1","category-norwich-city","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-nice","tag-pierre-lees-melou"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596105","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=596105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}