{"id":558522,"date":"2020-07-17T13:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=558522"},"modified":"2020-07-17T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:35:28","slug":"sheffield-united-complete-signing-of-wes-foderingham-on-free-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/17\/sheffield-united-complete-signing-of-wes-foderingham-on-free-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United Complete Signing of Wes Foderingham On Free Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/sheffield-united-club-news-analysis-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheffield United<\/a> have added to their goalkeeping ranks with the addition of Wes Foderingham. The 29-year-old arrives on a free transfer having left <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/caeb5442\/Steven-Gerrard?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Gerrard<\/a>&#8216;s Rangers in May. He has signed a three-year contract with Chris Wilder&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<h2>Sheffield United Complete Signing of Wes Foderingham<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Welcome to the Blades, Wes \ud83e\udde4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TRGq0wz075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/TRGq0wz075<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheffield United (@SheffieldUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheffieldUnited\/status\/1284161796266491904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Familiar With the Blades<\/h3>\n<p>While Foderingham has not featured for the Blades before, he has been their enemy on occasion during United&#8217;s stints in League One.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, he was the first-choice stopper for Swindon Town, and he played a starring role in the breathtaking play-off semi-final between the pair in 2015, which Swindon eventually won 7-6 on aggregate after a 5-5 draw in the second leg.<\/p>\n<h3>Boosting the Ranks<\/h3>\n<p>Even with <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/e5a76dfe\/Dean-Henderson?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dean Henderson<\/a> leaving the club at the end of the season upon the expiry of his loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manchester United<\/a>, Foderingham&#8217;s addition looks to be as a back-up more than anything, given his age and lack of experience in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>This looks to have been confirmed by United&#8217;s goalkeeping coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=9ae008d4,50a0781d&amp;search=Darren+Ward&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darren Ward<\/a>, who told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sufc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/july\/wes-foderingham-signs\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>: &#8220;[We] are delighted to be able to bring him in to bolster the goalkeeping department to give us options and competition for places.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/e7434f04\/Simon-Moore?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Moore<\/a> has been Sheffield United&#8217;s second-choice keeper this season, but his only league action has been in the games against Manchester United where Henderson was unable to play against his parent club.<\/p>\n<p>The Blades also have youngster Jake Eastwood, who has spent the season on loan at Scunthorpe United in League Two, and Michael Verrips, who is yet to feature since his move from KV Mechelen last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of another goalkeeper suggests that at least one of these will be leaving once the season ends. The lack of experience between them, too, also suggests that a solid first-choice keeper will be coming in if Henderson does not return next season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"Gu0-_JOpShdAnPXvktjo9g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/946688876\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Gu0-_JOpShdAnPXvktjo9g',sig:'n3nTvb4kQKUxq1ENBQlEf4VOfe8L4G_z4ZVxQfzc6CM=',w:'594px',h:'355px',items:'946688876',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield United have added to their goalkeeping ranks with the addition of Wes Foderingham. The 29-year-old arrives on a free transfer having left Steven Gerrard&#8216;s Rangers in May. He has signed a three-year contract with Chris Wilder&#8217;s side. Sheffield United Complete Signing of Wes Foderingham Welcome to the Blades, Wes \ud83e\udde4 pic.twitter.com\/TRGq0wz075 \u2014 Sheffield United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":558524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3,3839,28],"tags":[2036,4016,40,771,6091,6090,136],"class_list":["post-558522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","category-sheffield-united","category-transfers","tag-chris-wilder","tag-dean-henderson","tag-premier-league","tag-sheffield-united","tag-simon-moore","tag-wes-foderingham","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}