{"id":614207,"date":"2022-06-24T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614207"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:48:01","slug":"joe-rothwell-bournemouth-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/24\/joe-rothwell-bournemouth-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United Midfielder Close to Bournemouth Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly promoted <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/22\/ryan-fredericks-close-joining-bournemouth\/\" target=\"_self\">Bournemouth<\/a> are closing in on their second summer signing after agreeing a deal with free agent, Joe Rothwell, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markmcadamtv\/status\/1540302028152389634?t=yLCXVETJmrHHEKhndMQGCQ&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark McAdam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old midfielder, who left Blackburn Rovers following the expiry of his contract, is currently undergoing a medical with the Cherries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking News: <\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth have agreed a deal with free-agent Joe Rothwell. <\/p>\n<p>The midfielder is undergoing his medical TODAY.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Parker close to his second signing\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/afcb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#afcb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark McAdam (@markmcadamtv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markmcadamtv\/status\/1540302028152389634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Joe Rothwell Undergoing Medical Ahead of Bournemouth Move<\/h2>\n<h3>Football League Experience<\/h3>\n<p>After joining <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/24\/dean-henderson-transfer-manchester-united-nottingham-forest\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> in 2001, aged just 16, Joe Rothwell never made a senior appearance for the club. He ended his 15-year stay with the Red Devils in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, has plenty of Football League experience since he left Old Trafford six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/19\/oxford-united-player-leaves-arsenal-youngster\/\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United <\/a>on a permanent basis, the central midfielder spent time on loan at Blackpool and Barnsley in the second tier.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/22\/ryan-fredericks-close-joining-bournemouth\/\" target=\"_self\">Ryan Fredericks Is Close to Joining Newly Promoted Bournemouth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He then joined Oxford in League One and made 86 appearances for the U&#8217;s over a two-year spell. He was also part of the side that lost in the Football League Trophy final against Coventry City at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>From there, he moved to Ewood Park and has spent the last four seasons in the Championship with Blackburn Rovers.<\/p>\n<p>During his time in Lancashire, Rothwell scored 11 times from 161 appearances, with ten of those goals coming in the second tier.<\/p>\n<p>This season, the midfielder scored three times and added an impressive ten assists for Rovers as they ended their Championship campaign in eighth position.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As per reports elsewhere, understand Joe Rothwell is having a medical at Bournemouth today. <\/p>\n<p>A great move for him. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how he fairs in the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p>Neatly closes a chapter with the news on Lenihan and Nyambe today.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rovers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Rovers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o04KySJ6nS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/o04KySJ6nS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliott Jackson (@_ElliottJackson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_ElliottJackson\/status\/1540310206164393984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Second Summer Signing<\/h3>\n<p>Newly promoted Bournemouth are looking to strengthen their squad ahead of the new Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Parker has already brought in defender Ryan Fredericks on a two-year deal from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/20\/west-ham-chelsea-armando-broja\/\" target=\"_self\">West Ham United<\/a>. The 29-year-old, who made 77 appearances for the Hammers after joining the London club in 2018, will add experience to the Cherries&#8217; defence.<\/p>\n<p>Parker will be delighted with the addition of Rothwell, having seen a reported bid of \u00a33 million rejected by Rovers during the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/every-premier-league-transfer-completed-in-summer-2022\/\" target=\"_self\">Every Premier League Transfer Completed in Summer 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly promoted Bournemouth are closing in on their second summer signing after agreeing a deal with free agent, Joe Rothwell, according to Mark McAdam. The 27-year-old midfielder, who left Blackburn Rovers following the expiry of his contract, is currently undergoing a medical with the Cherries. Breaking News: Bournemouth have agreed a deal with free-agent Joe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":614208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[9,33,32,3,7188],"tags":[238,9279],"class_list":["post-614207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bournemouth","category-championship","category-league-football","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-blackburn-rovers","tag-joe-rothwell"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614207","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}