{"id":264047,"date":"2025-11-15T09:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264047\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:37:11","slug":"kemar-roofe-walsall-sign-former-leeds-and-rangers-striker-until-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264047\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemar Roofe: Walsall sign former Leeds and Rangers striker until January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">League Two leaders Walsall have added former Leeds United and Rangers striker Kemar Roofe on a short-term deal until January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old joins the Saddlers as a free agent having left Derby County in the summer after making only three appearances in the second half of last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Walsall-born forward began is career with West Bromwich Albion and has had spells with Northampton, Cheltenham and Oxford before joining Leeds in July 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After three seasons at Elland Road he moved to Belgian top-flight side Anderlecht for a year before joining Scottish giants Rangers, where he scored 26 goals in 33 league games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy to have signed for Walsall,&#8221; Roofe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c07p41emxv8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s my hometown club so it means that little bit more to me. I spoke with the gaffer [Mat Sadler] at length and he&#8217;s given me lots of confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s told me to bring what I usually do with my quality and experience and help the team push forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roofe goes straight into the Walsall squad for Saturday&#8217;s game against Colchester United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League Two leaders Walsall have added former Leeds United and Rangers striker Kemar Roofe on a short-term deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-264047","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\/264047","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=264047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}