{"id":682175,"date":"2026-07-09T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682175\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:20:10","slug":"mark-sykes-millwall-sign-republic-of-ireland-international-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682175\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Sykes: Millwall sign Republic of Ireland international midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millwall have signed Republic of Ireland international Mark Sykes on a two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 28-year-old midfielder was released by Bristol City at the end of last season having spent four seasons at Ashton Gate, scoring 18 goals in 153 appearances in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sykes started his career with Glenavon in Northern Ireland before joining Oxford United in 2019 and signing for Bristol City three years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His move to Millwall follows the news of the departure of fellow midfielder Barry Bannan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce957en0lpdo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">back to Sheffield Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mark is a proven, experienced Championship player with senior international caps to his name and he brings genuine versatility to our squad,&#8221; Millwall&#8217;s director of football Steve Gallen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millwallfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/july\/09\/millwall-announce-mark-sykes-signing\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He can operate at right-back, right-wing or the right side of the midfield, and having that kind of flexibility in one player is a real asset for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millwall have signed Republic of Ireland international Mark Sykes on a two-year contract. The 28-year-old midfielder was released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682175","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\/682175","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=682175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}