{"id":698749,"date":"2026-01-16T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698749\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:21:12","slug":"pierce-charles-sheffield-wednesday-goalkeeper-out-for-up-to-eight-weeks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698749\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Charles: Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper out for up to eight weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Pierce Charles has been ruled out for up to eight weeks with a shoulder injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old Northern Ireland international suffered the injury to his left shoulder in the FA Cup third-round defeat by Brentford on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He missed three months of the season with an injury to his right shoulder earlier this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boss Henrik Pedersen told BBC Radio Sheffield the administration-hit side were now in talks with other clubs about bringing in a goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Logan Stretch, 19, replaced Charles at the weekend for his first appearance in senior football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Charles will look to get back to full fitness in time for his country&#8217;s World Cup play-off semi-final against Italy on 26 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was in a good flow and going so well, strong defensively and strong with his feet,&#8221; Pedersen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So of course he is sad, and now he is off until Monday, he can rest a little bit and then we will start the next step with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Pierce Charles has been ruled out for up to eight weeks with a shoulder injury.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-698749","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\/115901922293107156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698749","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=698749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}