{"id":404854,"date":"2026-02-03T02:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:09:09","slug":"callum-lang-preston-north-end-sign-portsmouth-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/404854\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Lang: Preston North End sign Portsmouth forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston North End have signed Portsmouth forward Callum Lang for a &#8220;club record&#8221; undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old scored 16 goals for Pompey in 53 appearances after joining from Wigan Athletic in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He started his career with the Latics and had loan spells with Morecambe, Oldham Athletic, Shrewsbury Town and Motherwell prior to his move to the south coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lang joins Preston having scored twice for Portsmouth during an injury-hit season that has limited him to just eight appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He could make his North End debut against Pompey on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted. It&#8217;s been a tough one to get over the line and get done,&#8221; Preston boss Paul Heckingbottom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnefc.net\/news\/2026\/february\/02\/callum-lang-signs-for-club-record-fee\/\" class=\"ssrcss-eyo3xn-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a versatile attacking player, but we&#8217;re really clear about how we want to use him. Getting him in the box, being really aggressive to attack the ball and being really aggressive out of possession as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preston North End have signed Portsmouth forward Callum Lang for a &#8220;club record&#8221; undisclosed fee on a three-and-a-half-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-404854","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\/404854","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=404854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}