{"id":682620,"date":"2026-07-09T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682620\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:35:08","slug":"qpr-sign-motherwell-goalkeeper-calum-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682620\/","title":{"rendered":"QPR sign Motherwell goalkeeper Calum Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Queens Park Rangers have signed goalkeeper Calum Ward from Scottish Premiership side Motherwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old arrives at Loftus Road for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Essex-born shot-stopper broke two club records in helping Motherwell finish fourth last season by keeping 20 clean sheets during the campaign, including a run of nine in a row. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were slow starters, but once the season got going, we got our first win, and then we kicked on from there,&#8221; Ward said of what proved to be Motherwell&#8217;s highest league finish in six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The clean sheets are just a bonus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously, it&#8217;s really nice to get them personally, and that&#8217;s what we strive for as goalkeepers, but as a team, we just had a season that you couldn&#8217;t really believe.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens Park Rangers have signed goalkeeper Calum Ward from Scottish Premiership side Motherwell. The 25-year-old arrives at Loftus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682620","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\/682620","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=682620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}