{"id":617834,"date":"2022-09-12T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617834"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:25:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:25:01","slug":"celtic-tom-rogic-west-bromwich-albion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/12\/celtic-tom-rogic-west-bromwich-albion\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Celtic Man Makes the Move to England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bromwich Albion have announced the signing of former Celtic midfielder Tom Rogic on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Australia international left Celtic at the end of last season having won 16 trophies with the Scottish giants.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>West Bromwich Albion Sign Tom Rogic<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are delighted to announce the signing of Tom Rogic. \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Tom! \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; West Bromwich Albion (@WBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBA\/status\/1569294772497416192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Baggies Gearing Up For Promotion Push<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>West Bromwich Albion is the destination for the Aussie where he will be managed by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/19\/top-10-european-football-managers-watchlist\/\" target=\"_self\">Steve Bruce<\/a>. There is a lot of negativity around the experienced manager, especially given the stature of the club and the talent amidst his ranks. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/14\/west-bromwich-albion-midfielder-alex-mowatt\/\" target=\"_self\">Alex Mowatt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/30\/top-championship-transfers-this-summer\/\" target=\"_self\">Okay Yokuslu<\/a> are two excellent additions in the middle of the park whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/west-bromwich-albion-sign-salford-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Brandon Thomas-Asante<\/a> joined from Salford City and scored on his debut.<\/p>\n<p>The Baggies have now brought the former Celtic man on board too and they need to kickstart their season. Bruce\u2019s men currently occupy 16<sup>th<\/sup> with just one win in eight, six of the rest of the seven outings being draws incredibly. An injury to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/31\/european-players-to-watch-2022-23\/\" target=\"_self\">Daryl Dike<\/a> has dented the forward line and, in spite of their ability, the likes of Grady Diangana and Karlan Grant aren\u2019t properly firing yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/30\/top-championship-transfers-this-summer\/\" target=\"_self\">Standout Championship Transfers During This Summer Window<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DONE DEAL: West Brom have signed free agent Tom Rogic on an initial one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WBA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CelticFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CelticFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/524c7pu6Te\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/524c7pu6Te<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Football League World (@FootballLeagueW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootballLeagueW\/status\/1569295825129410560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the Former Celtic Man<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>With six league titles, five Scottish cups and five Scottish league cups to his name, not to mention just shy of 200 appearances, Rogic will be remembered fondly. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/30\/manchester-united-celtic-midfielder-matt-oriley\/\" target=\"_self\">Celtic<\/a> man has six goals to his name in the infamous Old Firm derby which is the real icing on the cake; he has never been a prolific goal scorer after all.<\/p>\n<p>Rogic is clearly a player for the big occasion and this will be necessary for success at the Hawthorns. When football is back underway, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/30\/top-championship-transfers-this-summer\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a> clashes against the likes of Birmingham City, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/14\/bali-mumba-plymouth-argyle-signing\/\" target=\"_self\">Norwich City<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/01\/swansea-city-duo-joel-piroe-michael-obafemi\/\" target=\"_self\">Swansea City<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/26\/sheffield-united-loan-brighton-reda-khadra\/\" target=\"_self\">Sheffield United<\/a> await in the next month or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bromwich Albion have announced the signing of former Celtic midfielder Tom Rogic on a one-year deal. The 29-year-old Australia international left Celtic at the end of last season having won 16 trophies with the Scottish giants. West Bromwich Albion Sign Tom Rogic We are delighted to announce the signing of Tom Rogic. \ud83e\udd1d Welcome, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":617843,"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":[26,8428,33,32,8427,28],"tags":[7352,9437,8069],"class_list":["post-617834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west-brom","category-celtic","category-championship","category-league-football","category-scottish-premiership","category-transfers","tag-celtic-transfer-news","tag-tom-rogic","tag-west-bromwich-albion-transfer-news"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617834","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\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}