{"id":5751,"date":"2020-09-23T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T11:41:40","slug":"mckenna-joins-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"McKenna Joins Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23 year old Scottish International defender Scott McKenna has signed for Nottingham Forest from Aberdeen for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>The centre half made over 100 appearances for the Dons since 2014 and already has 16 caps for Scotland and is the eleventh signing this summer made by the club.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Kirriemuir the 6ft2in defender was originally a left back and has been long touted as one of the best young Scottish prospects with Aberdeen rejecting previous bids from Celtic and Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p>A distant relative of Alan Gilzean the big defender is hoping to fulfil his promise as he looks a very strong addition to the Nottingham Forest line-up.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Main image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFFC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NFFC<\/a> McKenna becomes the eleventh signing this transfer window for Forest.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 year old Scottish International defender Scott McKenna has signed for Nottingham Forest from Aberdeen for an undisclosed fee. The centre half made over 100 appearances for the Dons since 2014 and already has 16 caps for Scotland and is the eleventh signing this summer made by the club. Born in Kirriemuir the 6ft2in defender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[6,16],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-nottingham-forest","tag-football","tag-nottingham-forest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>McKenna Joins Forest - the Nottingham Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McKenna Joins Forest - the Nottingham Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"23 year old Scottish International defender Scott McKenna has signed for Nottingham Forest from Aberdeen for an undisclosed fee. The centre half made over 100 appearances for the Dons since 2014 and already has 16 caps for Scotland and is the eleventh signing this summer made by the club. Born in Kirriemuir the 6ft2in defender [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"the Nottingham Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SportNottm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-23T11:41:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Scott-McKenna.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"info@nottinghamsport.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SportNottm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SportNottm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"info@nottinghamsport.com\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"info@nottinghamsport.com\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2d13cd23107e6869351637d864adf68e\"},\"headline\":\"McKenna Joins Forest\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-23T11:41:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Scott-McKenna.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Football\",\"Nottingham Forest\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Football\",\"Nottingham Forest\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/\",\"name\":\"McKenna Joins Forest - the Nottingham Sport\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Scott-McKenna.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-23T11:41:40+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Scott-McKenna.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Scott-McKenna.png\",\"width\":700,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/23\\\/mckenna-joins-forest\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"McKenna Joins Forest\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"the Nottingham Sport\",\"description\":\"LATEST SPORTS NEWS FROM AROUND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Nottingham Sport\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/10\\\/Nottingham-Sport.png?fit=600%2C100&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/10\\\/Nottingham-Sport.png?fit=600%2C100&ssl=1\",\"width\":600,\"height\":100,\"caption\":\"Nottingham Sport\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/SportNottm\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/SportNottm\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2d13cd23107e6869351637d864adf68e\",\"name\":\"info@nottinghamsport.com\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/63d0fe9e6105d286977aecb57ef1f9e2e5098c6c03e9279592b14745b9e6c364?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/63d0fe9e6105d286977aecb57ef1f9e2e5098c6c03e9279592b14745b9e6c364?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/63d0fe9e6105d286977aecb57ef1f9e2e5098c6c03e9279592b14745b9e6c364?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"info@nottinghamsport.com\"},\"description\":\"Covering the county of Nottinghamshire with all your sporting news.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nottinghamsport.com\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"McKenna Joins Forest - the Nottingham Sport","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"McKenna Joins Forest - the Nottingham Sport","og_description":"23 year old Scottish International defender Scott McKenna has signed for Nottingham Forest from Aberdeen for an undisclosed fee. The centre half made over 100 appearances for the Dons since 2014 and already has 16 caps for Scotland and is the eleventh signing this summer made by the club. Born in Kirriemuir the 6ft2in defender [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/","og_site_name":"the Nottingham Sport","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SportNottm","article_published_time":"2020-09-23T11:41:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":700,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Scott-McKenna.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"info@nottinghamsport.com","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SportNottm","twitter_site":"@SportNottm","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"info@nottinghamsport.com","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/"},"author":{"name":"info@nottinghamsport.com","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2d13cd23107e6869351637d864adf68e"},"headline":"McKenna Joins Forest","datePublished":"2020-09-23T11:41:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/"},"wordCount":123,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Scott-McKenna.png","keywords":["Football","Nottingham Forest"],"articleSection":["Football","Nottingham Forest"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/","url":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/","name":"McKenna Joins Forest - the Nottingham Sport","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Scott-McKenna.png","datePublished":"2020-09-23T11:41:40+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Scott-McKenna.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Scott-McKenna.png","width":700,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/mckenna-joins-forest\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"McKenna Joins Forest"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/","name":"the Nottingham Sport","description":"LATEST SPORTS NEWS FROM AROUND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#organization","name":"Nottingham Sport","url":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Nottingham-Sport.png?fit=600%2C100&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Nottingham-Sport.png?fit=600%2C100&ssl=1","width":600,"height":100,"caption":"Nottingham Sport"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SportNottm","https:\/\/x.com\/SportNottm"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2d13cd23107e6869351637d864adf68e","name":"info@nottinghamsport.com","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63d0fe9e6105d286977aecb57ef1f9e2e5098c6c03e9279592b14745b9e6c364?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63d0fe9e6105d286977aecb57ef1f9e2e5098c6c03e9279592b14745b9e6c364?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63d0fe9e6105d286977aecb57ef1f9e2e5098c6c03e9279592b14745b9e6c364?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"info@nottinghamsport.com"},"description":"Covering the county of Nottinghamshire with all your sporting news.","url":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Scott-McKenna.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5753,"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/5753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nottinghamsport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}