{"id":643350,"date":"2026-06-17T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643350\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:36:18","slug":"jenson-metcalfe-millwall-sign-bradford-city-midfielder-on-long-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643350\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenson Metcalfe: Millwall sign Bradford City midfielder on long-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Championship side Millwall have signed midfielder Jenson Metcalfe from Bradford City for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old, nominated for League One player of the year last season, has agreed what the Championship club are calling a &#8220;long-term&#8221; contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been tracking him for a few years now,&#8221; Millwall&#8217;s director of football, Steve Gallen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millwallfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/june\/16\/millwall-confirm-metcalfe-signing\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club&#8217;s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jenson was a mainstay in the Bradford team last year and possesses a number of traits that we can feel add real value to the squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Metcalfe becomes play-off semi-finalists Millwall&#8217;s first close-season signing and is a product of the Everton youth academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent the 2024-25 season on loan at Chesterfield before leaving Merseyside to complete a permanent move to Bradford last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Metcalfe made 49 appearances for Bradford last season in all competitions as the Bantams reached the League One play-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Championship side Millwall have signed midfielder Jenson Metcalfe from Bradford City for an undisclosed fee. The 21-year-old, nominated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643350","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\/643350","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=643350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}