{"id":192,"date":"2019-02-06T11:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T11:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/?p=192"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T11:08:30","slug":"moncur-happy-to-leave-barnsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/moncur-happy-to-leave-barnsley\/","title":{"rendered":"MONCUR HAPPY TO LEAVE BARNSLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former West Ham midfielder George Moncur has expressed his delight at leaving Barnsley for Luton Town which he believes to be the best team in League One.<\/p>\n
Luton Town got smashed by the Tykes 3-2 earlier in the season and could only hold out for a goalless draw in the reverse fixture on New Year\u2019s Day at Kenilworth Road but Moncur is still adamant that his new team is the better side.<\/p>\n
Speaking immediately after his move to Luton, the midfielder revealed that he has moved to the \u2018best team\u2019 in the league insisting that they have the best players and are going for honors this season.<\/p>\n
George Moncur amassed 22 league appearances for Barnsley this season before his exit. However, just 11 of them were starts while the remaining 11 were off the bench.<\/p>\n
The player has now signed a deal with promotion rivals Luton Town on a two and a half year contract and will be looking to hit the ground running at Kenilworth Road.<\/p>\n
Moncur also reserved some praise for his former club and teammates, thanking them for their support throughout his two years at the club and wishing them the best for the future.<\/p>\n
He has been warmly welcomed at Luton Town as former club player Cameron McGeehan<\/a> congratulating Moncur for making the \u2018big step\u2019 to play for the club<\/a> and wishing him success.<\/p>\n Barnsleywelcome Rochdale to Oakwell for a League One clash on February 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former West Ham midfielder George Moncur has expressed his delight at leaving Barnsley for Luton Town which he believes to be the best team in League One. The new signing at Luton Town is very happy to have signed for the club and has been speaking highly of them, regarding the club as the best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,18,7],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heckingbottom","tag-george-moncur","tag-kenilworth","tag-oakwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tykesblog.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}