{"id":693006,"date":"2026-07-15T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693006\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:13:11","slug":"amani-richards-barnsley-sign-leicester-city-forward-for-undisclosed-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/693006\/","title":{"rendered":"Amani Richards: Barnsley sign Leicester City forward for undisclosed fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barnsley have signed Leicester City forward Amani Richards for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 21-year-old never featured for the Foxes&#8217; first team but had a loan spell in League One with Exeter City in 2024-25 when he played six games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is the third player to join the Tykes this week following defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/crlwl51ndkgo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrese Noslin<\/a> and goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/czj8r241pyko\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cieran Slicker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We believe Barnsley is the right place for him to take the next step in his career, and we are excited to start working with him,&#8221; boss Daniel Stendel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnsleyfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/july\/15\/amani-richards-signs-for-the-reds\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barnsley have signed Leicester City forward Amani Richards for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal The 21-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693006","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\/693006","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=693006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}