{"id":122483,"date":"2022-09-15T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/andy-carroll-returns-to-reading-for-second-stint"},"modified":"2022-09-15T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T16:23:47","slug":"andy-carroll-returns-to-reading-for-second-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/andy-carroll-returns-to-reading-for-second-stint","title":{"rendered":"Andy Carroll returns to Reading for second stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former England striker Andy Carroll has returned to for a second spell.Carroll has signed a four-month contract to stay at the Sky Bet Championship club until mid-January.The 33-year-old, who won nine England caps, scored two goals in eight appearances for Reading last season before joining West Brom in January.Reading manager Paul Ince told the club website: &#8220;I am really pleased to have Andy with us.&#8220;Of course, a striker of his prowess gives us power and a battling presence at the top of the pitch and I&#8217;m sure that will translate into goals.&#8220;However, Andy&#8217;s arrival also offers us another strong voice in the dressing room.&#8220;He is a leader, both on and off the pitch, and having trained with us all this week I can already see the positive influence he will have on the players around him and the boost he will no doubt give to the fans.&#8221;Carroll made his name at hometown club Newcastle before joining Liverpool for &#163;35million in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former England striker Andy Carroll has returned to for a second spell. Carroll has signed a four-month contract to stay at the Sky Bet Championship club until mid-January. The 33-year-old,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[139,138,58],"class_list":["post-122483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}