{"id":457852,"date":"2023-09-01T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=457852"},"modified":"2023-09-01T21:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:45:16","slug":"jonny-evans-returns-to-manchester-united-on-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jonny-evans-returns-to-manchester-united-on-one-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Evans returns to Manchester United on one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Evans has signed a short term one-year contract with his boyhood team Manchester United, where he spent 9 years from 2006 to 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jonny Evans has signed new short term deal at Manchester United valid until June 2024 \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd34\u270d\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MUFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MUFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vh5gleO2Wi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vh5gleO2Wi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1697648275552186572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The veteran defender spent the pre-season with the Red Devils and impressed manager Erik Ten Hag.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year had a highly successful spell with United, clinching three Premier League titles, two League Cups and the Champions League. He has made 198 appearances for the club, scoring 7 times.<\/p>\n<p>Evans departed in 2015 to West Bromich Albion before joining Leicester in 2018. He became the Foxes&#8217; captain, making 121 appearances for them, before his contract expired this summer as the team got relegated to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am delighted to join Manchester United, a place which has always felt like home.&#8221; Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This club and the fans have shaped me as a player and as a person since I was 15 years old, and I am delighted to be back where it all began as part of this talented squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Evans has signed a short term one-year contract with his boyhood team Manchester United, where he spent 9 years from 2006 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":457853,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21222,16789],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[21223,17559],"acf":{"announce":"The Red Devils young academy product will return to Old Trafford for first time since 2015","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457854,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/457852\/revisions\/457854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457852"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=457852"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=457852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}