{"id":720262,"date":"2026-07-31T04:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720262\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:03:31","slug":"connal-trueman-sheffield-wednesday-sign-ex-mk-dons-goalkeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720262\/","title":{"rendered":"Connal Trueman: Sheffield Wednesday sign ex-MK Dons goalkeeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheffield Wednesday have signed former MK Dons goalkeeper Connal Trueman on a one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old was the number two keeper as the Dons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c624eg3w5dpt\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secured promotion<\/a> back to League One last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Owls have the option of extending the contract by one year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trueman began his senior career at Birmingham City in 2014 after coming through the Blues&#8217; youth system and, after a sequence of loans, moved to Millwall in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent three seasons at The Den without making an appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wednesday&#8217;s sporting director Simon Wilson said Trueman &#8220;arrives with terrific references on and off the pitch &#8211; he is a talented goalkeeper and another great character to add to the group&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilson added: &#8220;He was part of a promotion-winning team last year and understands the daily standard required to be successful.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday have signed former MK Dons goalkeeper Connal Trueman on a one-year contract. The 30-year-old was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720262","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\/720262","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=720262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}