{"id":2878,"date":"2022-06-24T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:29:56","slug":"cardiff-city-confirm-shock-signing-of-andy-rinomhota-from-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City Confirm Shock Signing Of Andy Rinomhota From Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Skybet Championship outfit Cardiff City have announced the signing of Zimbabwe&#8217;s prospective midfieder Andrew Rinomhota from fellow Championship side Reading on a three-year deal to complete a stunning summer transfer.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 25-year-old midfieder who was born in Leeds, England to a Zimbabwean father and a British mother, made a total of 139 appearances for Reading, scoring four goals and seven assists since his debut for the first team in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcf8<br><br>The midfielder joins the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bluebirds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bluebirds<\/a> on a three-year deal!<br><br>Welcome to the Welsh capital, Andy! \ud83d\udc99<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CityAsOne?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CityAsOne<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cardiff City FC (@CardiffCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CardiffCityFC\/status\/1540396839043743751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His move to Cardiff City after the expiry of his contract at Reading comes as one of the most surprising in the Skybet Championship and represents a bargain deal for Cardiff City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His departure leaves Reading without a proper defensive midfieder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Royals had tried to offer him fresh terms amid interests from several clubs including Stoke City and Queens Park Rangers but Rinomhota opted to move to South Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a top player, and he wanted to come and play for us, &#8221; said the Bluebirds manager Steve Morison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He had a tough year last year with a couple of injuries, but before that he played two 40+ game seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was a top player for Reading.&nbsp;We\u2019ll manage him right, and we hope to get 40 top quality games out of him this year,&#8221; said Morison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Reading academy graduate has shown enthusiasm for the new adventure ahead of him by joining the Bluebirds&#8217; preseason training before his deal was announced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI spoke with the manager and liked his ideas. His ambitions were in line with mine and the philosophy suits me,&#8221; said Rinomhota <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m box-to-box, but I can sit and be more defensive, I like to break up play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI like to drive with the ball, get past players and make runs behind the striker, &#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rinomhota is one of the UK-based players targeted by Zimbabwe Warriors technical team and has already indicated his desire to represent the country of his origin but the incompetent and &#8216;politics&#8217; by the ZIFA administration has hindered his transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>*Story photos courtesy of Cardiff City FC website<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skybet Championship outfit Cardiff City have announced the signing of Zimbabwe&#8217;s prospective midfieder Andrew Rinomhota from fellow Championship side Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/rinomhota-arrival1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}