{"id":448148,"date":"2026-01-30T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448148\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:10:08","slug":"boston-united-sign-striker-tom-cursons-and-defender-jake-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/448148\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston United sign striker Tom Cursons and defender Jake Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boston United have signed Derby County defender Jake Rooney on loan and brought in striker Tom Cursons for an undisclosed fee from Harrogate Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rooney, the 22-year-old cousin of Wayne Rooney, spent four months on loan at League One side Barnsley earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was recalled at the start of January and now drops two divisions to join Boston in their battle to avoid relegation from the National League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cursons, 24, has joined the Pilgrims on a &#8220;multi-year contract&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored seven goals in 32 appearances after joining the Sulphurites from Ilkeston Town in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both Cursons and Rooney, who has featured 23 times for the Rams across all competitions, could make their debuts for the Lincolnshire side at Boreham Wood on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston United have signed Derby County defender Jake Rooney on loan and brought in striker Tom Cursons for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-448148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}