{"id":615237,"date":"2022-07-25T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615237"},"modified":"2022-07-25T08:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:30:40","slug":"ben-davies-new-tottenham-hotspur-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/25\/ben-davies-new-tottenham-hotspur-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales International Signs New Contract With Tottenham Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1551492551856852993\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> have confirmed that defender Ben Davies has signed a new contract at the club. Should Davies stay for the entire contract duration, he will have spent over a decade at Tottenham.<\/p>\n<h2>Ben Davies Stays With Tottenham Hotspur<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u270d\ufe0f We are delighted to announce that Ben Davies has signed a new contract with the Club which will run until 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1551492551856852993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Delighted&#8217; to Sign New Contract<\/h3>\n<p>The 29-year-old expressed his joy at signing the new deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1551496225538527232\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a>:\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to sign my new contract.<\/p>\n<p>I think after last season and the summer this club has had there&#8217;s no more exciting time than right now to be at this club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was enjoying my football and when the opportunity came from the club to extend my contract I was more than happy to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/06\/26\/ben-davies-and-joe-rodon-euro-2020-promise-tottenham-hotspur\/\" target=\"_self\">Ben Davies and Joe Rodon Bow Out of Euro 2020 but Show Promise for Tottenham Hotspur<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ben Davies signs new contract with the club until 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Well deserved \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ffducRd31F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ffducRd31F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; COYS.com (@COYS_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/COYS_com\/status\/1551502343576887298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Don\u2019t Be Deceived by His Lack of Trophies<\/h3>\n<p>Davies spent a single season at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/21\/swansea-city-forward-plymouth-argyle-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Swansea City<\/a> before moving to the Danish side Viborg FF in his youth, following a job offer his father received in the city. They spent three years there, before moving back to Wales and rejoining Swansea&#8217;s youth academy.<\/p>\n<p>Davies&#8217; next stint at the club lasted for a decade and saw the Welshman make his senior debut in 2012 in a 2-1 win against Scotland. This was also the year when the defender made his debut for the senior national team. As of July 2022, Davies has been capped 74 times by Wales and participated in two European Championships.<\/p>\n<p>After two solid professional seasons at Swansea that saw the Welshman win the EFL Cup in 2013, he was signed by Tottenham, where he has been to this day. Davies hasn&#8217;t won anything more to place in his trophy cabinet, the closest thing being losses in the UEFA Champions League final and his second EFL Cup final. Regardless, the Wales international has had a solid career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed that defender Ben Davies has signed a new contract at the club. Should Davies stay for the entire contract duration, he will have spent over a decade at Tottenham. Ben Davies Stays With Tottenham Hotspur \u270d\ufe0f We are delighted to announce that Ben Davies has signed a new contract with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3313,"featured_media":615246,"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":[24,30,3],"tags":[1506],"class_list":["post-615237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tottenham","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-ben-davies"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615237","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\/3313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}