{"id":609699,"date":"2026-05-29T04:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T04:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:45:12","slug":"oliver-norburn-notts-county-midfielder-to-leave-promoted-league-two-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609699\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Norburn: Notts County midfielder to leave promoted League Two side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Notts County midfielder Oliver Norburn is to leave at the end of his contract next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old, who signed a one-year deal after leaving Blackpool in June last year, made 40 appearances for Notts this season as they won promotion to League One with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c4g9r494881t#Report\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 3-0 victory over Salford<\/a> in the League Two play-off final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow midfielder Keanan Bennetts, 27, is also leaving the Meadow Lane side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club are in talks with captain Rod McDonald, 34, and fellow defender Lewis Macari, 24, about new deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ollie intends to accept an offer from a club closer to his family home and he has our full blessing in doing so, along with our gratitude for his many quality performances,&#8221; the club&#8217;s directors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottscountyfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/may\/28\/2025-26--retained-list\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have no doubt that his experience and character was key to our success in the play-offs and we&#8217;re certain he&#8217;ll be a huge asset to his new club.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notts County midfielder Oliver Norburn is to leave at the end of his contract next month. The 33-year-old,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609699","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\/609699","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=609699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}