{"id":656423,"date":"2025-07-02T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=656423"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:44:01","slug":"tyler-goodrham-oxford-united-commit-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/02\/tyler-goodrham-oxford-united-commit-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Goodrham Becomes Latest Oxford United Player to Commit Future to the Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/01\/brian-de-keersmaecker-joins-oxford-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United<\/a> forward Tyler Goodrham has penned a new long-term deal with the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old, who came through the club&#8217;s academy, has turned out over 140 times, scoring 18 times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/07\/01\/brian-de-keersmaecker-joins-oxford-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Brian De Keersmaecker Joins Oxford United\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Tyler Goodrham Commits Long-Term Future to Oxford United<\/h2>\n<h3>Academy Graduate to First Team<\/h3>\n<p>Having joined Oxford at the age of 14, Tyler Goodrham has joined the first team as a product of the club&#8217;s academy.<\/p>\n<p>The forward made his U&#8217;s debut in November 2019 but made himself a regular among the first team in the 2022\/23 campaign after scoring a late winner on his debut in a win over Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he has surpassed 140 outings for the club and helped the U&#8217;s secure promotion to the Championship with a brilliant display at Wembley last summer.<\/p>\n<p>In most transfer windows, <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LastWordOUFC\/status\/1921912217605144810?t=JvgYVL4eDb1BJvXv7evXMQ&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Goodrham has been linked with a move away<\/a> but this new deal means any potential departure should result in a significant transfer fee.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.oufc.co.uk\/news\/tyler-goodrham-signs-new-long-term-oxford-united-contract\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speaking to OUTV, he said<\/a>: \u201cThis club is important to me and for my development. The people within this environment really care and I feel it\u2019s the place to stay and consistently perform in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club is very forward-thinking and progressive. We are looking to compete and keep pushing up the league, which is very important for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim is to finish as high as possible. We have come a long way in a short time which shows the progression of the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love it here. Coming through the youth academy, there are a lot of familiar faces, and it helps me to come in, be myself and play freely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing the 18-year-old coming through, the fans allowed me to express myself and be free. That has really helped me progress and I want to continue to entertain the supporters for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford United forward Tyler Goodrham has penned a new long-term deal with the club. The 21-year-old, who came through the club&#8217;s academy, has turned out over 140 times, scoring 18 times. Read More: Brian De Keersmaecker Joins Oxford United\u00a0 Tyler Goodrham Commits Long-Term Future to Oxford United Academy Graduate to First Team Having joined Oxford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":656424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[8430,33,32],"tags":[9372],"class_list":["post-656423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-championship","category-league-football","tag-tyler-goodrham"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656423","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656425,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656423\/revisions\/656425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}