{"id":320717,"date":"2025-12-17T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320717\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:31:08","slug":"lewis-morgan-sold-to-san-diego-by-new-york-red-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/320717\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Morgan sold to San Diego by New York Red Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know I can look back on my time here and know that I gave absolutely everything I had to this club,&#8221; he told San Diego&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I played as if I was one of the fans and tried to bring that energy on to the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To win their supporters player of the year in both my healthy season here is something that I will cherish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, Morgan made 82 appearances &#8211; 73 of them starts &#8211; and provided 31 goals and 10 assists during his time with New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Celtic forward, who last played for Scotland against Finland in June 2024, now joins a side who were led by head coach Mikey Varas to a fourth-place finish overall in the MLS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sporting director Tyler Heaps told San Diego&#8217;s website: &#8220;Lewis is an attacker who can play across the front three and brings qualities that will add to our group in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s proven he can contribute goals and assists in this league.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I know I can look back on my time here and know that I gave absolutely everything I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-320717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320717","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=320717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}