{"id":208338,"date":"2025-06-23T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208338\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:36:14","slug":"nat-phillips-completes-permanent-transfer-to-west-bromwich-albion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208338\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Phillips completes permanent transfer to West Bromwich Albion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 28-year-old finalised his move to the Championship side on Monday<strong> <\/strong>to bring an end to his nine-year stay with the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips arrived at the club&#8217;s Academy set-up in 2016 on the back of a trial, and would go on to make 29 senior appearances.<\/p>\n<p>His debut came in January 2020 when he temporarily returned from a loan spell at VfB Stuttgart to play in an FA Cup victory over Everton at Anfield, before returning to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The centre-back was then hugely important as he stepped up to play 20 times in the next campaign and help J\u00fcrgen Klopp&#8217;s injury-affected Liverpool secure third place and Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips was voted the team&#8217;s Standard Chartered Player of the Month by supporters in the March and scored his only goal for the club away at Burnley during the run-in.<\/p>\n<p>He joined AFC Bournemouth on loan in the winter of 2021-22 to form part of their successful push for promotion back to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Further temporary stints at Celtic, Cardiff City and, most recently, Derby County followed.<\/p>\n<p>As Nat now embarks on a new chapter in his career, everyone at LFC would like to thank him for his efforts and wish him the very best for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 28-year-old finalised his move to the Championship side on Monday to bring an end to his nine-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1050,1051,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,79,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-208338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-the-reds","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114734129755231025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}