\n The wing-back has signed for the League Two club for an undisclosed fee on an 18-month deal after two-and-a-half seasons at Valley Parade.\n<\/p>\n
\n Richards made 64 appearances for City with three goals and six assists but his progress was hampered by injury.\n<\/p>\n
\n He began the promotion campaign strongly before his troubles began with a dislocated shoulder at Colchester in November.\n<\/p>\n
\n It popped out again last February during a game at Wimbledon – and his comeback three weeks later at Bromley was cut short by a serious hamstring injury.\n<\/p>\n
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\n Richards had surgery and spent the off-season recovering before signing a new one-year deal in July.\n<\/p>\n
\n But he played only four times this term in the Vertu Trophy as well as City\u2019s FA Cup first-round loss to Cheltenham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wing-back has signed for the League Two club for an undisclosed fee on an 18-month deal after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-373793","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\/373793","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=373793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}