{"id":460975,"date":"2026-03-06T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:12:11","slug":"mark-percival-st-helens-centre-signs-one-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460975\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Percival: St Helens centre signs one-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Helens centre Mark Percival has signed a new deal to remain with the Super League club until the end of the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old has spent his entire career with Saints, winning five Super League titles, four League Leaders&#8217; Shields, the Challenge Cup and the World Club Challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England international Percival has made 266 appearances for the club Saints and scored 129 tries and 383 goals in the process, but has missed the beginning of this season with a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have always wanted to be at this club, and now I&#8217;ve got another year&#8217;s extension to keep playing here, it feels unbelievable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love this club, so I&#8217;m glad to get this deal over the line and get it done.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Helens centre Mark Percival has signed a new deal to remain with the Super League club until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460975","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=460975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}