Dundee Football Club are delighted to announce the signing of goalkeeper Jon McCracken from Norwich City on a season-long loan deal.
Jon began his football career at Hamilton Academical and was snapped up by Norwich City at the age of 16 and moved across the border to continue developing his career.
The 23-year-old has been with Norwich for the last seven years and during that time has had two loan spells. Firstly, with League of Ireland side Bohemian where he made five appearances and then with Stevenage FC at the end of last season where he also made five appearances.
The club are thrilled to have secured the signing of Jon after the player had several options available to him from clubs in England.
On signing for Dundee, Jon said, “It feels great, there has been a bit of interest for a while now, so I’m glad to get it done and to be here. I spoke to the gaffer quite a few times over the last couple of weeks and once I spoke to him my mind was pretty much made up on where I wanted to go and it was just a matter of getting the green light from Norwich to come up. The gaffer said you’ll come in and fight for your jersey and that was my mind made up. I am hoping for a successful season for me personally and the club. I am aiming to get as many games as I can and hopefully help Dundee to get as many clean sheets as possible.”
Jon has trained with his new teammates this morning and will travel with the squad to our training camp in Ireland.
On McCracken joining Dundee, manager Tony Docherty said, “We are delighted to have him in the building, he is an extremely talented young goalkeeper from Norwich who they rate very highly. He now just needs to get to that next stage in his career in terms of his development, so we are delighted to have him on board. He’s a big character, a great personality and from what we’ve heard and seen of him we are very impressed. He’ll be coming to Ireland with us to integrate with the boys. I’ve said to Jon he’s in a fight for the jersey and that number one spot and that’s what I want all over the squad that competition, because that healthy level of competition keeps everyone on their toes and improves the standard.
Welcome to the Dee Jon!
