{"id":474964,"date":"2024-01-04T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474964"},"modified":"2024-01-04T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:01:48","slug":"townsend-inks-a-new-long-term-deal-with-luton-town","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/townsend-inks-a-new-long-term-deal-with-luton-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Townsend inks a new long-term deal with Luton Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luton Town attacker Andros Townsend has inked a long-term deal with the EPL team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Town boss RE has declared that winger Andros Townsend penning a new long-term contract is an &#39;amazing signing&#39; for the Hatters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5WTTdEKIkn\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/5WTTdEKIkn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LutonNews_LTFC (@LutonNews_LTFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LutonNews_LTFC\/status\/1742657947002642639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Townsend joined Luton in October on a short-term deal until this month after leaving the Toffees. The winger has played 11 matches in the league since landing at Kenilworth Road, netting 1 goal and giving 2 assists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without a doubt, I&#8217;m happy &#8211; 3 months ago, I thought my career was over,&#8221; shared Andros after the news of his newly signed contract. Luton admitted that the new deal would keep the attacker on the team for the &#8220;foreseeable future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andros had not played a competitive game since March 2022 while still in Everton before joining the newly promoted side.<\/p>\n<p>Townsend added: &#8220;From going begging around the world just for a trial to inking a long-term deal is very special for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luton Town attacker Andros Townsend has inked a long-term deal with the EPL team. Town boss RE has declared that winger Andros Townsend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474965,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22512,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[22515,22514,17886],"acf":{"announce":"Andros will remain in the newly-promoted Premier League side in the future.","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\/474964"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474967,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474964\/revisions\/474967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474964"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474964"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}