{"id":263934,"date":"2025-11-15T08:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263934\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:07:08","slug":"aston-villa-midfielder-tommi-oreilly-surprised-by-progress-during-crewe-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/263934\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa midfielder Tommi O&#8217;Reilly surprised by progress during Crewe loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Reilly made his league debut for Shrewsbury at the start of last term &#8211; one of 12 appearances he made in League One during his six-month loan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went back out on loan during January to MK Dons for the rest of that campaign, which brought 16 more league outings, including three starts, and his first senior goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Reilly says he took his time to decide the best club to join this season and is very happy that things are working out under Alex boss Lee Bell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was an important decision for me because I&#8217;ve had a few loans,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say they were bad, I&#8217;d say I&#8217;ve had to learn from them and hopefully this loan will be good for me. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was really important I chose a team that would suit me football-wise and I think it&#8217;s shown that when I&#8217;ve got that I can deliver the goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My aim was to come here and play as many games as I can and the gaffer&#8217;s helping me do that by putting me in the team and trusting me to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hopefully I can keep repaying him and the fans and show them I&#8217;m good enough to be in the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eighth-placed Crewe go to Oldham on Saturday hoping to make it three wins in a row in League Two as they try to close the four-point gap to leaders Walsall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly made his league debut for Shrewsbury at the start of last term &#8211; one of 12 appearances&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-263934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}