{"id":10557,"date":"2021-07-09T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=123624"},"modified":"2021-07-09T19:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:30:45","slug":"liverpool-sign-former-tottenham-and-arsenal-forward-rianna-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/liverpool-sign-former-tottenham-and-arsenal-forward-rianna-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool sign former Tottenham and Arsenal forward Rianna Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rianna Dean has signed for Liverpool Women after being released by Tottenham. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">In 63 appearances for Spurs over the past three seasons, she has netted 21 goals for the north London club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham\u2019s Dean, who helped the club to promotion from the Championship last season, came through Arsenal\u2019s academy and spent a season with Millwall Lionesses before signing for Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>She told Liverpool\u2019s website: \u201cI\u2019m buzzing. The club is massive. I\u2019m really looking forward to it and I\u2019m really happy to be here. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">My job is to score goals and hopefully, that is what the fans will see from me. I like to work hard and do my best for the team. <\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">When you have healthy competition it only pushes individuals in the team to do better. I\u2019ve come here to get promotion and help the team push on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool manager Matt Beard \u2013 who was appointed as the club\u2019s boss for a second time in May \u2013 added: \u201cIt was important we signed a proven goalscorer and Rianna has done that consistently in two seasons in the Championship.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">She had a great first WSL season before being in and out of the team last year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Dean, Leanne Kiernan, Yana Daniels, Megan Campbell, Jasmine Matthews and Carla Humphrey have also joined Liverpool this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22-year-old joins Liverpool, becoming their sixth signing of the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":33034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,1947,2251,219,1748,1749,1162,1950,1951],"class_list":["post-10557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-women","tag-chmapionship","tag-liverpool","tag-spursy","tag-tottenham","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-womens-super-league","tag-wsl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}