{"id":714485,"date":"2026-07-28T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714485\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:34:10","slug":"ben-osborn-stockport-county-sign-ex-loan-midfielder-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714485\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Osborn: Stockport County sign ex-loan midfielder permanently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midfielder Ben Osborn has joined Stockport County on a one-year contract for the 2026-27 League One season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Osborn spent the majority of the past campaign on loan at the Hatters, playing 45 games and scoring twice as they finished third but lost in the play-off final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old was a free agent this summer, with his contract at Championship club Derby County having expired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ben can play in a multitude of positions and is a really selfless player &#8211; particularly impressive for someone who has operated at the highest level,&#8221; Stockport head coach Jim McNulty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockportcounty.com\/news\/2026\/july\/27\/ben-osborn-returns-on-a-permanent-deal\/\" 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;Having already been here before, he knows the club well and has a genuine affection for it. He had other offers on the table but chose us, which only adds to the many positives he brings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midfielder Ben Osborn has joined Stockport County on a one-year contract for the 2026-27 League One season. Osborn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-714485","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\/714485","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=714485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}