{"id":597919,"date":"2021-08-02T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=597919"},"modified":"2021-08-02T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:56:16","slug":"west-bromwich-albion-adam-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/02\/west-bromwich-albion-adam-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bromwich Albion Sign Adam Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/15\/west-bromwich-albion-reject-sam-johnstone-bid\/\" target=\"_self\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a> have completed the signing of former Sheffield Wednesday winger Adam Reach. The 28-year-old departed Wednesday earlier this summer and has now signed a three-year deal with Valerian Ismael&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<h2>Adam Reach Signs for West Bromwich Albion<\/h2>\n<h3>Career So Far<\/h3>\n<p>Reach becomes the fourth signing of the Ismael era at The Hawthorns following the arrivals of Alex Mowatt, Quevin Castro and Matt Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old started his career at Middlesbrough and spent five years there, making a total of 79 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Following the conclusion of the 2015\/16 season in which Middlesbrough were promoted to the Premier League, Reach left the club to join Sheffield Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He became a key player for the Owls over his five years at the club, scoring some sensational goals along the way.<\/p>\n<p>In total, he scored 24 times in 232 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<h3>Adam Reach Aiming for Premier League<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the club website upon his arrival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wba.co.uk\/news\/reach-joins-fourth-summer-signing\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reach said:<\/a> &#8220;It\u2019s clear that West Bromwich Albion is a very ambitious club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I share those ambitions of wanting to play in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the most exciting challenge of my career and it\u2019s certainly the biggest challenge of my career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I pride myself on making a lot of appearances for clubs. I want to make plenty of appearances here and have my best years here. I just cant wait to get started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Pereira Looking to Leave Club<\/h3>\n<p>Meanwhile, West Brom attacker Matheus Pereira has confirmed his desire to leave the club, posting a lengthy message on social media in which he explained his reasons and reacted to fans that had questioned his commitment to the club.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RVSljfGJL2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/RVSljfGJL2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matheus Pereira (@MatheusPereira) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatheusPereira\/status\/1422203670775611392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pereria was one of the stars of the Championship during West Brom&#8217;s last campaign in the second tier, which resulted in their promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian also shone for the Baggies despite their disappointing return to the top flight, leading to links with him staying in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>In his message, Pereira said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to leave the club through the back door, that was never my plan or my intention, quite the contrary. I want the club to be adequately rewarded for believing in me and supporting me for two seasons. Three weeks ago I received an offer that would change my life and my family&#8217;s life forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"CJ9BHfZHTDxsGxRx4bMCUg\" 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\/1232626703\" 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:'CJ9BHfZHTDxsGxRx4bMCUg',sig:'5D7P4vR-4htY26qvX_PL7outs40TJQ_Z6FM7hOINWec=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1232626703',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>West Bromwich Albion have completed the signing of former Sheffield Wednesday winger Adam Reach. The 28-year-old departed Wednesday earlier this summer and has now signed a three-year deal with Valerian Ismael&#8217;s side. Adam Reach Signs for West Bromwich Albion Career So Far Reach becomes the fourth signing of the Ismael era at The Hawthorns following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":597920,"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":[32,33,34,30,28,26],"tags":[7181,1083],"class_list":["post-597919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-league12","category-news","category-transfers","category-west-brom","tag-adam-reach","tag-sheffield-wednesday"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597919","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=597919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}