{"id":598332,"date":"2021-08-11T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=598332"},"modified":"2021-08-11T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T17:28:07","slug":"sunderland-dennis-cirkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/11\/sunderland-dennis-cirkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland Sign Defender Dennis Cirkin from Tottenham Hotspur\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Sunderland have completed the signing of highly-rated 19-year-old defender <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Dennis Cirkin from Tottenham Hotspur. Cirkin has moved to Wearside on a permanent deal and becomes head coach Lee Johnson\u2019s fourth summer signing. He moves to the Stadium of Light for an undisclosed fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Dennis Cirkin Moves to Sunderland From Spurs<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to Wearside, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCirkin3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DCirkin3<\/a> \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WqOK8NyeoY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/WqOK8NyeoY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sunderland AFC (@SunderlandAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunderlandAFC\/status\/1425506088057704457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Sunderland Finally Sign a Full-Back Following Summer Long Search<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Cirkin is a highly-rated left-back who is an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/27\/lee-carsley-ashley-cole-england-u21\/\" target=\"_self\">England<\/a> U19 international. He failed to make a first-team appearance at White Hart Lane but did make it to the bench on five occasions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Sunderland had been looking for full-backs all summer following the departure of several players and the uncertainty over the future of Denver Hume, who is yet to sign a new deal following the expiring of his previous contract.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">The Black Cats had reportedly agreed on a deal to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> full-back Tony Gallacher early this transfer window. However, the deal broke down just as it appeared that the deal was done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p3\">New Signing Delighted to be at the Club<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/safc.com\/news\/team-news\/2021\/august\/cirkin-joins-sunderland\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">safc.com<\/a>, Sunderland&#8217;s new signing said: \u201cI\u2019m delighted to be here. As soon as I got interest from Sunderland, it was a no-brainer \u2013 the fans, the stadium, the history \u2013 and I just thought the club was perfect for me. I feel like the head coach has a very good track record with young players and I feel like this is a place that I can progress and develop in my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Who is Dennis Cirkin?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Born in Ireland, Cirkin moved to England aged three. He is a product of the Spurs academy and quickly moved through the age groups at the Tottenham academy. Often playing in age groups above his own, his work rate and crossing ability impressing all at the club.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Former Spurs boss <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/06\/03\/jose-mourinho-real-madrid-carlo-ancelotti\/\" target=\"_self\">Jose Mourinho<\/a> was a fan, promoting the youngster to the first team to train and include him in several squads. Speaking about Cirkin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunderlandecho.com\/sport\/football\/sunderland-afc\/why-tottenham-want-to-sell-sunderland-target-dennis-cirkin-and-what-jose-mourinho-said-about-him-3336321\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mourinho said<\/a>: \u201cOK, he\u2019s 17, but he\u2019s a kid with a lot of quality, and I look forward to bringing him to train with us and to help his development.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"XK0KknQLSsZ1d0zmLkglgQ\" 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\/1331647774\" 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:'XK0KknQLSsZ1d0zmLkglgQ',sig:'FfjPNLCe-KJQNWH9V2isuG-A_n4JhKc5Rg3Ibx_c6QY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1331647774',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>Sunderland have today completed the signing of highly-rated left-back Dennis Cirkin from Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":598937,"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":[32,34,30,22,24,28],"tags":[5468],"class_list":["post-598332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","category-sunderland","category-tottenham","category-transfers","tag-dennis-cirkin"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598332","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}