{"id":720168,"date":"2026-01-25T17:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/720168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:29:14","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-legend-barry-bannan-on-the-brink-of-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/720168\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday legend Barry Bannan on the brink of exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tom Blackett <\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Wednesday are bracing themselves for the loss of talisman Barry Bannan.<br \/>The Owls captain was reported to have told teammates that yesterday\u2019s game at Bristol City would be his last for the club.<br \/>The 36-year-old midfielder is a Wednesday legend. He has made 435 league appearances since joining in 2015.<br \/>The former Scotland international, whose deal expires at the end of the season, has been linked with a move to promotion-chasing Millwall.<br \/>Difficult situation<br \/>By contrast, Wednesday are on the club\u2019s longest-ever winless run, having failed to claim victory in any of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Tom Blackett Sheffield Wednesday are bracing themselves for the loss of talisman Barry Bannan.The Owls captain was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8817],"tags":[9310,18228,748,9030,23712,393,94,40403,4884,12902,55454,61563,111568,11653,1620,21069,16,15,7038],"class_list":["post-720168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sheffield","tag-brentford","tag-bristol-city","tag-britain","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-england","tag-football","tag-football-league","tag-great-britain","tag-league-one","tag-millwall","tag-owls","tag-pre","tag-premium","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffield-wednesday","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wednesday"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115956926587764246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720168","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=720168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}