{"id":574525,"date":"2025-11-16T17:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574525\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:25:21","slug":"patrick-bamford-sheffield-united-sign-former-leeds-united-striker-on-short-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/574525\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Bamford: Sheffield United sign former Leeds United striker on short-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sheffield United have signed former Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford on a short-term deal until January.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old was a free agent after being released by the Premier League side in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blades have made a poor start to the Championship season and are three points adrift of safety after 15 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bamford, who won one cap for England in 2021, could make his debut in the Steel City derby at Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday, 23 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored 56 goals in 192 league games in seven years with Leeds after joining from Middlesbrough in 2018 and twice helped them to promotion from the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He featured less regularly last season though and failed to score in 18 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In April, Blades boss Chris Wilder said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8g4vx43n4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he had &#8220;no issue&#8221; with Bamford<\/a> after the player was filmed leading Whites fans in a derogatory chant against the Sheffield United manager when Leeds celebrated promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield United have signed former Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford on a short-term deal until January. The 32-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-574525","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\/115560547933731400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574525","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=574525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}