Republic of Ireland international Mark Sykes has joined Championship side Millwall.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old midfielder has signed a two-year deal at The Den.<\/p>\n
Sykes was most recently at Bristol City where he completed four seasons of Sky Bet Championship experience following a move from Oxford United.<\/p>\n
He became a free agent following the expiration of his contract.<\/p>\n
With around 150 appearances in the second tier under his belt, Sykes is able to play in a number of positions.<\/p>\n
“We’re delighted to welcome Mark Sykes to the club,” said Steve Gallen, Millwall’s director of football.<\/p>\n
“Mark is a proven, experienced Championship player with senior international caps to his name and he brings genuine versatility to our squad.<\/p>\n
“He can operate at right-back, right-wing or the right side of the midfield, and having that kind of flexibility in one player is a real asset for us.<\/p>\n
“He’s mobile, comfortable on the ball and reads the game well – we’re really pleased to have him on board.”<\/p>\n
Sykes has been capped seven times by Ireland, last featuring in the UEFA Nations League matches with Bulgaria in March of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland international Mark Sykes has joined Championship side Millwall. The 28-year-old midfielder has signed a two-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-540940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}