{"id":601691,"date":"2021-09-13T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=601691"},"modified":"2021-09-13T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:19:30","slug":"connor-wickham-joins-preston-north-end-on-short-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/09\/13\/connor-wickham-joins-preston-north-end-on-short-term-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Wickham Joins Preston North End on Short-Term Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short term deal has been agreed until January 13 \u00a02022 for Connor Wickham to join Preston North End following a successful trial period. Preston confirmed the news on via their official Twitter page:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u270d\ufe0f \ud835\uddea\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddf2, \ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff!<\/p>\n<p>Preston North End are pleased to confirm Connor Wickham has joined the club on a short-term deal until 13th January. <\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LGbb1W6fJh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/LGbb1W6fJh<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pnefc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#pnefc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7tO49IPSA6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/7tO49IPSA6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Preston North End FC (@pnefc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnefc\/status\/1437446389307514884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Connor Wickham Joins Preston on Short Term Contract<\/h2>\n<h3>Trial Period Leads to Contract<\/h3>\n<p>Preston head coach Frankie McAvoy has been impressed with 28-year-old Wickham\u2019s trial period at the club resulting in the former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/09\/12\/smart-business-shows-crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Crystal Palace<\/a> striker signing a short term contract. Wickham is now in contention for Preston\u2019s Championship match against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/09\/13\/adlene-guedioura-sheffield-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Sheffield United<\/a> on Tuesday 14 September.<\/p>\n<p>Wickham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnefc.net\/news\/2021\/september\/wickham-ready-to-fight-for-place\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the official Preston North End website<\/a> that he is already settled at the club and is happy with how he is getting on with the squad and now wants to get back to match action;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys have taken to me really well. I feel like they\u2019re a really good bunch of lads, they\u2019re quite close-knit so I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to be an issue settling in.\u00a0From now on it\u2019s just about doing the talking on the pitch and on the training field.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Ready to Provide Selection Headache<\/h3>\n<p>Wickham doesn&#8217;t feel that he is just around to make up the numbers at Preston and is ready to give McAvoy a selection headache;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel ready. It\u2019s up to the manager what he wants to do, I\u2019ve said to him it\u2019s going to be his decision ultimately who plays on a Saturday and on a Tuesday, that\u2019s going to be his call. But I have to give him that headache out on the training field so that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wickham provides Preston with plenty of experience having reached 100 games across his time in the Premier League and Championship and will look to add extra firepower during his time with the club. He will be hoping he can do enough to earn an extension to this short term contract.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"lBdFxAtySDhCMfwVEfexFA\" 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\/1221396335\" 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:'lBdFxAtySDhCMfwVEfexFA',sig:'4pag0ERmXyzZGTvsSnfNPWL52sSgh6ivCPJevl9gg1E=',w:'594px',h:'356px',items:'1221396335',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>A short term deal has been agreed until January 13 \u00a02022 for Connor Wickham to join Preston North End following a successful trial period. Preston confirmed the news on via their official Twitter page: \u270d\ufe0f \ud835\uddea\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddf2, \ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff! Preston North End are pleased to confirm Connor Wickham has joined the club on a short-term deal until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2488,"featured_media":601697,"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":[33,32,28,1],"tags":[3756,659],"class_list":["post-601691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-championship","category-league-football","category-transfers","category-uncategorized","tag-connor-wickham","tag-preston-north-end"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601691","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=601691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}