{"id":270149,"date":"2025-07-17T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270149\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:56:09","slug":"josh-windass-and-michael-smith-leave-sheffield-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270149\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Windass and Michael Smith leave Sheffield Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Forwards Josh Windass and Michael Smith have left Sheffield Wednesday after the club said their contracts had been ended &#8220;by mutual consent&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Windass, 31, who scored the Owls&#8217; winning goal against Barnsley in the 2023 League One play-off final, featured in 163 league games, scoring 46 goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith, also a member of that promotion-winning side, scored 29 times in 111 league appearances after moving to Hillsborough in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old had previously won promotion to the Championship twice as a Rotherham player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Windass and Smith follow winger Djeidi Gassama, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cyvj1yv9mmyo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed for Rangers earlier this week<\/a>, through the exit door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the club said: &#8220;Sheffield Wednesday thank Michael and Josh for their services and wish them well for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forwards Josh Windass and Michael Smith have left Sheffield Wednesday after the club said their contracts had been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114870341719748904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}