{"id":288233,"date":"2025-07-24T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288233\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:31:15","slug":"st-mirren-confirm-signing-of-defender-miguel-freckleton-from-sheffield-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288233\/","title":{"rendered":"St Mirren confirm signing of defender Miguel Freckleton from Sheffield United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>St Mirren have announced the signing of Miguel Freckleton from Sheffield United as they continue to build a squad for the upcoming Premiership campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old defender has put pen to paper on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>He joins the Buddies following a season-long loan at Swindon Town in England\u2019s League Two.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Robinson confirmed earlier that there would be no transfer fee but Sheffield United would receive a percentage of any future sale.<\/p>\n<p>The St Mirren said: Manager Stephen Robinson said: \u201cMiguel is someone whose career we have watched develop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel that he is someone similar to Richard Taylor. He\u2019s got good attributes and is really quick. He\u2019s still got lots to learn, but at 21 he\u2019s played nearly 100 games and we\u2019ll continue to work with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s someone who will get better with more football and will become a big asset for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe comes in to fight for a place, and I believe makes us a lot stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Mirren have announced the signing of Miguel Freckleton from Sheffield United as they continue to build a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288233","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\/114908933931792217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288233","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=288233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}