David Jones (soccer player, 1984)
| David Jones | ||
 David Jones (2011)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | David Frank Llwyd Jones | |
| birthday | 4th November 1984 | |
| place of birth | Southport , England | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1995-2003 | Manchester United | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2003-2007 | Manchester United | 0 (0) |
| 2005-2006 | → Preston North End (loan) | 24 (3) |
| 2006 | → NEC Nijmegen (loan) | 17 (6) |
| 2006-2007 | → Derby County (loan) | 10 (1) |
| 2007-2008 | Derby County | 34 (6) |
| 2008-2011 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 66 (6) |
| 2011-2013 | Wigan Athletic | 29 (0) |
| 2013 | → Blackburn Rovers (loan) | 12 (2) |
| 2013-2016 | Burnley FC | 124 (2) |
| 2016-2019 | Sheffield Wednesday | 57 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2004 | England U-21 | 1 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2018/19 |
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David Frank Llwyd Jones (born November 4, 1984 in Southport ) is an English football player . The midfielder , who was trained in the youth academy of Manchester United , did not succeed in making the leap to the professional team of the "Red Devils"; instead, he hired after three loan periods at the then second division Derby County .
Athletic career
Apprenticeship at Manchester United (1995-2005)
At the age of just ten, young David Jones joined Manchester United's youth division. During the 2000/01 season he came to eight missions in the U-17 of "Man United", whereupon he signed an official training contract on July 2, 2001. In spring 2002 he made a name for himself in the U-19 team and led the team onto the field as captain in the 2002/03 season. He scored one goal in a total of 18 games and also made it into the final of the FA Youth Cup . There he secured the first national cup trophy of his career with a 2-0 win in the final second leg against the juniors of Middlesbrough FC - his teammate was Sylvan Ebanks-Blake , who he would later see again at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The next step was the permanent establishment in the midfield center of the reserve team. Hopes for a further promotion to the first team were not yet fulfilled and in December 2003 he sat on the bench for the first time in the league cup , but was not used. In the 2004/05 season Manchester United had a second substitute team play in the Pontins' Holiday League in addition to the regular reserve team in the Premier Reserve League , in which in turn Jones was made team captain. In this league he won the title and since he also played in some games of the reserve team mentioned first, he came to a kind of "reserve team double", as this also won the championship. Jones made his professional debut as a substitute on December 1, 2004 on the occasion of the 1-0 league cup success against Arsenal . His first appearance from the start was on January 8, 2005 in the surprising 0-0 home draw in the third round of the FA Cup against Exeter City .
The final access to the professional team was denied to him despite these sporadic assignments. Regular players such as Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were too big a competition in the defensive midfield, which Jones now increasingly avoided through loan deals with less renowned clubs.
Loan phases (2005–2007)
Jones' first path led in the 2005/06 season to the second division Preston North End , where he came to his first professional league game against Watford FC (2-1) on August 6, 2005 . After performing well as a "joker" from the bench, he developed into a regular midfield player at "PNE". On August 29, 2005, he scored his first competitive goal in the 4-0 away win at Ipswich Town and completed 24 missions by the end of the year. The next loan period followed shortly after the turn of the year.
He helped out for three months at the Dutch honorary division NEC Nijmegen and immediately made a good impression on his substitutions against Ajax Amsterdam , Sparta Rotterdam and ADO Den Haag . Despite his brief stint, Jones established himself in the half-left midfield of the 4-3-3 system practiced in Nijmegen and in the club's internal election for the best player of the past season, he was chosen in second place behind striker Romano Denneboom . He said goodbye to NEC in tenth place and returned to Manchester, where he had signed a new three-year deal. The prospects continued to deteriorate there, especially since Michael Carrick, another “top-class player” in his position , had been signed by Tottenham Hotspur for 14 million pounds . After only two games in the League Cup, United's management accepted on November 15, 2006 an offer from the second division Derby County , which initially provided for another loan, with the possible option of a permanent commitment at the next opportunity for a transfer fee of one million pounds . In the winter transfer phase, Jones finally moved in January 2007 to the "Rams", who were trained by Billy Davies , whom the midfielder already knew from his time in Preston.
Via Derby to Wolverhampton (2007-2011)
During the Derby County's promotion season, Jones was instrumental in the success in midfield. He scored decisive goals against Crystal Palace , Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich City , but then moved back into the second rank in the decisive phase - in the 1-0 win against West Bromwich Albion in the play-off final, he was only in the 87th minute substituted in. Although Derby County struggled in the English top division and stuck at the bottom of the table, Jones' appearances remained irregular and the coach change to Paul Jewell helped little, although twelve of his 15 competitive games in the 2007/08 season were under the new sporting director.
Following the relegation Jones signed on June 27, 2008 with the second division Wolverhampton Wanderers a new three-year contract, the transfer fee should have been 1.2 million pounds according to media reports. With the "Wolves" he was a fixture from the first day of the game, but showed himself in the course of the 2008/09 season, which brought him a renewed promotion to the Premier League, injury-prone and missed twelve league games.
Wigan Athletic
On August 2, 2011, David Jones moved to Wigan Athletic .
successes
- FA Youth Cup Winner : 2003
- Premier Reserve League Winner : 2005
Web links
- David Jones in the soccerbase.com database
- Profile at Wolverhampton Wanderers
- David Jones in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Jones salutes Reds influence" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (ManUtd.com)
- ^ "Rams bag Man Utd midfielder Jones" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Wolves complete deal for Jones" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ Wigan complete signing of David Jones on free transfer (BBC Sport)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Jones, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, David Frank Llwyd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th November 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Southport |