{"id":731439,"date":"2026-01-30T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/731439\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:12:12","slug":"chang-rejoins-walsall-after-birmingham-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/731439\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang rejoins Walsall after Birmingham exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walsall have signed midfielder Alfie Chang on a deal to the end of the season after his contract with Birmingham City was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Chang played eight games during a loan spell with the Saddlers last season, scoring his only goal in a 2-0 play-off semi-final win at Chesterfield.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He has been on loan at Bristol Rovers this term, making 16 league appearances, but was recalled by Birmingham earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re right in the mix again this season and myself and the team will be going all out for promotion, that&#8217;s the main goal and I&#8217;m looking forward to playing my part,&#8221; Chang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saddlers.co.uk\/news\/2026\/january\/30\/alfie-chang-returns-to-ws1-on-permanent-deal-from-birmingham-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told the Walsall website.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">told the Walsall website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He will be available for Saturday&#8217;s away game against Chesterfield.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769800332_656_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walsall have signed midfielder Alfie Chang on a deal to the end of the season after his contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[45716,855,12905,37128,748,393,4884,217266,217267,16,15],"class_list":["post-731439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-alfie-chang","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city","tag-bristol-rovers","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-league-appearances","tag-saddlers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115985642093324780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731439","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=731439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}