The 23-year-old joins the club on a short term deal from Sky Bet League One side Barnsley.<\/p>\n
The shot-stopper, who came through the ranks at Wolverhampton Wanderers, commented:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m buzzing. It\u2019s been a quick turnaround, but good to meet all the lads, and I\u2019m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the conversations have been positive, what the gaffer wants to see from me, and it\u2019s down to myself to go out and do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve known Kevin [Berkoe] since I was 16\/17, to see him is brilliant and I look ahead to sharing the pitch with him again.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone dreams of playing in the FA Cup, I\u2019m sure the fans will be up for it and will make it special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith joined Wolves at just eight years old and was a regular in both their Under-18 and Under-23 sides. He linked up with the First Team\u2019s pre-season tour of Spain and Portugal in 2022.<\/p>\n
After spells on loan at non-league sides Frickley Athletic and Kettering Town, he signed for Walsall on an initial six-month loan which was made permanent in the summer of 2023. In his first full season, Smith won the Saddlers\u2019 Young Player Of the Year Award, making 30 appearances.<\/p>\n
A move to Barnsley followed before a month-long loan at Grimsby Town last season, appearing seven times at Blundell Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Welcome, Jackson!<\/p>\n
The loan move is subject to FA clearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old joins the club on a short term deal from Sky Bet League One side Barnsley. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-191688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}