{"id":608053,"date":"2022-01-18T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=608053"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:01:30","slug":"blackburn-rovers-sign-dilan-markanday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/18\/blackburn-rovers-sign-dilan-markanday\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn Rovers Sign Dilan Markanday From Tottenham Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackburn Rovers have secured the permanent signing of Dilan Markanday from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/17\/andy-carroll-burnley-reading\/\" target=\"_self\">Premier League<\/a> side<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/15\/tottenham-arsenal-postponed-statement\/\" target=\"_self\"> Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Markanday, 20, has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal at Ewood Park, with an option to extend for a further 12 months.<\/p>\n<h2>Dilan Markanday Leaves Tottenham Hotspur for Blackburn Rovers<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rovers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Rovers<\/a> are delighted to announce the signing of highly-rated Tottenham Hotspur youngster Dilan Markanday on a long-term deal.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelcomeDilan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WelcomeDilan<\/a> \ud83d\udd35\u26aa\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blackburn Rovers (@Rovers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rovers\/status\/1483379680799604738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Markanday Leaves Spurs After Nine Years<\/h3>\n<p>Joining Spurs at the age of 11, a decision to leave the club would no doubt have been difficult. Markanday has prioritised his career with a move where regular first-team football is much more likely.<\/p>\n<p>Markanday had just months remaining on his deal at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/15\/tottenham-target-adama-traore-wants-to-play-for-wolves-according-to-bruno-lage\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham<\/a> after signing a one-year extension in January 2021. He has now left the club, hoping to hit new heights with promotion-chasing Blackburn Rovers.<\/p>\n<p>Rovers are third in the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/04\/nottingham-forest-steve-cook-transfer\/\" target=\"_self\"> Championship<\/a> table and being just two points off top have a very realistic chance of finally returning to the Premier League. Markanday&#8217;s signing may help their cause.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-10413673\/Blackburn-sign-Tottenham-starlet-Dilan-Markanday-initial-500-000.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> paid an initial \u00a3500,000 fee for their new number 18.<\/p>\n<p>Markanday made one senior appearance for Tottenham, as a substitute v Vitesse in the Europa Conference League, becoming the first British Asian to represent Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>He has shown significant potential, scoring 12 and assisting five in 14 Premier League 2 appearances this season, he has also assisted twice in three Papa John&#8217;s Trophy games for Tottenham Hotspur U21.<\/p>\n<h3>Tony Mowbray: Dilan Markanday a Signing Rovers Fans Will Love<\/h3>\n<p>Tony Mowbray has been Blackburn Rovers boss since 2017, which is an achievement in this day and age.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m very excited to be joining <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rovers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@rovers<\/a>, a great club with so much history that I\u2019m delighted to now be a part of. Can\u2019t wait to get started! \ud83d\udd35\u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h58nvwAszh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/h58nvwAszh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dilan Markanday (@DilanMarkanday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DilanMarkanday\/status\/1483431179822972937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mowbray told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rovers.co.uk\/news\/2022\/january\/18\/mowbray--our-fans-will-love-dilan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RoversTV<\/a> on his new signing: &#8220;He&#8217;s got quick feet, sharpness, he has goals in him and he&#8217;s a young player that wants to find the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been at a big football club and probably hasn&#8217;t seen the pathway through to their first team. It&#8217;s an opportunity for us and we&#8217;ve put a lot of work in watching him and assessing him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want him to work his way into the group, to get to know his teammates, and we&#8217;re hopeful that he might come in and hit the ground running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn have scored 44 goals in the Championship this season, beaten only by Fulham&#8217;s 64. 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Markanday, 20, has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal at Ewood Park, with an option to extend for a further 12 months. Dilan Markanday Leaves Tottenham Hotspur for Blackburn Rovers \u270d\ufe0f #Rovers are delighted to announce the signing of highly-rated Tottenham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3469,"featured_media":608055,"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":[33,32,24,28],"tags":[238,9088],"class_list":["post-608053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-championship","category-league-football","category-tottenham","category-transfers","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-dilan-markanday"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608053","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\/3469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}