almost seven years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe has also played for clubs in Portugal and Serbia, and returned to Wellington on a short-term loan in February but was limited to just two matches because of a knee injury.<\/p>\n
He recovered to make the All Whites squad for the World Cup and played in their three pool matches against Iran, Egypt and Belgium.<\/p>\n
His loan period with the Phoenix has ended. The club said today it tabled him another offer, but he signed with Portuguese second-tier club SC Farense instead.<\/p>\n
“I was so stoked to return home, but unfortunately it didn’t play out the way I wanted it to for the club and for myself,” Singh said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“But that’s life and that’s football. I’m happy to be injury-free now and back playing and I wish the club all the best for the upcoming season.”<\/p>\n
Singh is one of three players the Phoenix have farewelled this week, with fellow midfielders Ramy Najjarine and Sander Kartum also leaving.<\/p>\n
Najjarine played in all but two of the Phoenix’s A-League games last season, scoring two goals with three assists.<\/p>\n
He is heading to Qanah FC in the Egyptian Premier League.<\/p>\n
Kartum played in 12 matches, on loan from Heart of Midlothian FC in January.<\/p>\n
He has returned to Hearts in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
The Phoenix said today they have 16 men’s players contracted for the 2026-27 A-League season, with more signings to made shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Whites midfielder Sarpreet Singh won’t be playing for the Wellington Phoenix next season. Singh made his professional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-537167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}