{"id":839922,"date":"2026-08-02T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839922\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:00:11","slug":"danny-batth-millwall-sign-veteran-defender-on-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839922\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Batth: Millwall sign veteran defender on one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experienced defender Danny Batth has signed a one-year deal with Millwall after leaving Derby County at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batth, who turns 36 next month, previously played under Lions boss Alex Neil at Sunderland when he helped the Black Cats win promotion from League One in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent a decade with boyhood club Wolves, featuring in two promotions before moving on to play Championship football with five other clubs \u2013 most recently last season for the Rams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a hugely experienced centre-back who&#8217;s earned respect throughout the game over a long career, and that experience is exactly what we&#8217;re looking to add to this group,&#8221; Millwall&#8217;s director of football <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millwallfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/august\/02\/millwall-sign-danny-batth\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Gallen said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Danny&#8217;s leadership and attitude will count for a lot, both on the pitch and in the dressing room. He adds strong competition in that area of the pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batth becomes the seventh signing of the summer for the Lions, who launch their campaign with an EFL Cup first-round visit to QPR next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experienced defender Danny Batth has signed a one-year deal with Millwall after leaving Derby County at the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-839922","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\/839922","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=839922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}