{"id":598261,"date":"2021-08-05T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=598261"},"modified":"2021-08-05T09:38:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:38:38","slug":"west-bromwich-albions-matt-phillips-pens-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/05\/west-bromwich-albions-matt-phillips-pens-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bromwich Albion\u2019s Matt Phillips Pens New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/26\/key-takeaways-watford-west-bromwich-albion\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a>\u2019s Matt Phillips has agreed a new deal to keep him at the Hawthornes until the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A new deal for our No.10! \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Matty Phillips has signed a contract extension which runs until the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBA\/status\/1423253255895896069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>West Bromwich Albion\u2019s Matt Phillips Pens New Deal<\/h2>\n<h3>Long Serving Player Remains at Hawthornes<\/h3>\n<p>West Bromwich Albion\u2019s current longest serving player, Matt Phillips has signed a new contract extension with the club, keeping at the Hawthornes until the summer of 2024. Phillips joined West Brom in 2016 from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/13\/quiz-efl-football-mascots\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Queens Park Rangers<\/a> and has scored 23 goals in 172 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<h3>West Brom Manager Sees Phillips as \u2018Crucial Asset\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>New West Brom manager Valerian Ismael sees Phillips as being a key player for his team as he looks to take the club back to the Premier League following last season\u2019s relegation, when Sam Allardyce failed to keep them up.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Phillips can play in a number of positions across the front line particularly appeals to Ismael who told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wba.co.uk\/news\/phillips-pens-contract-extension\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official club website: <\/a>\u201cWe have a front three &#8211; our \u20187\u2019, \u20189\u2019 and \u201811\u2019 &#8211; and Matt can play all three positions.\u00a0We have some players in the squad who are able to play many positions, and Matt is one of those players.\u00a0He showed us early in pre-season that even the \u20189\u2019 position is a position for him, I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ismael also praised Phillips\u2019 professionalism and Willingness to learn how to be a better player, saying:\u00a0\u201cHe is very intelligent in terms of reflecting well, and he comes all the time to us for more videos, more information and how to solve problems.\u00a0It shows, simply, his professionalism. This is exactly what we need. The right player, with the right mentality and with quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ismael explained that mentality in a player is more important than age, and that when you are professional like Phillips you can be the example for those around you: \u201cIf you are 18 or 30 it doesn\u2019t matter, as long as you have the right mentality, the right focus and the desire on the pitch. I think that Matt is the perfect example for our way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"T3MkQzxjQ7NeNLVKt5MWCQ\" 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\/1234208178\" 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:'T3MkQzxjQ7NeNLVKt5MWCQ',sig:'wIHphNfUgqfrz3q5o3AbaG2vM_lfbfdI6Dk2rNc8exo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1234208178',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\u2019s Matt Phillips has agreed a new deal to keep him at the Hawthornes until the summer of 2024. A new deal for our No.10! \u270d\ufe0f Matty Phillips has signed a contract extension which runs until the summer of 2024. &mdash; West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) August 5, 2021 West Bromwich Albion\u2019s Matt Phillips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":598271,"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":[32,33,1,26],"tags":[1957],"class_list":["post-598261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-championship","category-uncategorized","category-west-brom","tag-matt-phillips"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598261","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\/2488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}