{"id":690473,"date":"2026-07-14T03:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690473\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:57:15","slug":"ryan-wintle-mk-dons-sign-former-cardiff-city-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690473\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Wintle: MK Dons sign former Cardiff City midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MK Dons have signed former Cardiff City midfielder Ryan Wintle on a free transfer on an undisclosed contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wintle, 29, won Cardiff&#8217;s player of the year award as the Bluebirds secured an immediate return to the Championship last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In May he announced he was leaving the Welsh club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yej336mk0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to circumstances &#8220;completely out of my control&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has a real intent to his play and his athleticism allows him to cover the pitch really well,&#8221; MK Dons boss Paul Warne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkdons.com\/news\/2026\/july\/13\/dondeal---ryan-wintle-is-mk-dons--fourth-summer-signing\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I met him, I was impressed by his honesty and desire to play the game and win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our midfield is currently a strong department, but we must keep improving the team and squad wherever possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to joining Cardiff in 2021, Wintle spent six seasons with Crewe Alexandra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wintle is MK Dons&#8217; fourth signing of the season following their promotion to League One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MK Dons have signed former Cardiff City midfielder Ryan Wintle on a free transfer on an undisclosed contract.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690473","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\/690473","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=690473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}