{"id":10541,"date":"2021-07-07T22:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=121986"},"modified":"2021-07-07T22:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:34:43","slug":"newcastle-offers-new-deals-to-jacob-murphy-federico-fernandez-fabian-schar-dwight-gayle-and-paul-dummett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/newcastle-offers-new-deals-to-jacob-murphy-federico-fernandez-fabian-schar-dwight-gayle-and-paul-dummett\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle offers new deals to Jacob Murphy, Federico Fernandez, Fabian Schar, Dwight Gayle and Paul Dummett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle has extended the contracts of five first-team players, including the likes of winger Jacob Murphy.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Federico Fernandez and Dwight Gayle have also signed new contracts at St James\u2019 Park, while the club has exercised their option to renew Fabian Schar and Paul Dummett\u2019s deals to cover the upcoming 2021\/22 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reports from England in June stated that the club wanted to make Murphy sign a long-term contract due to strong interest from Burnley and Porto because of his previous deal due to expire in June 2022.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The 26-year-old winger made 26 league appearances and managed to score twice and set up a further three goals for the Magpies as he finished the Premier League season strongly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Murphy, Fernandez, Gayle and Dummett have all returned for pre-season training this week, while Sch\u00e4r will return to Tyneside later in July after helping Switzerland to the quarter-final stage of Euro 2020. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cI\u2019m delighted to extend the players\u2019 contracts,\u201d said Newcastle boss Steve Bruce to Sky Sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey all have a thorough understanding of this club and what it takes to play here, and they have all made excellent contributions over recent years. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">The hard work preparing for the new season has already begun and we\u2019re looking forward to building momentum as we head towards the big kick-off next month,\u201d he added in his statement to Sky Sports.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Murphy, Federico Fernandez and Dwight Gayle have signed new contracts at Newcastle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":33018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2199,1724,2200,218,2198,910],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-burnley","tag-newcastle","tag-porto","tag-premier-league","tag-steve-bruce","tag-switzerland"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}