{"id":14525,"date":"2025-05-15T20:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/steven-fletcher-striker-to-leave-wrexham-not-by-choice\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T20:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:23:50","slug":"steven-fletcher-striker-to-leave-wrexham-not-by-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/steven-fletcher-striker-to-leave-wrexham-not-by-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Fletcher: Striker to leave Wrexham &#8216;not by choice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Striker Steven Fletcher has announced &#8220;with a heavy heart&#8221; he is leaving Wrexham &#8220;and not by choice&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old former Scotland international&#8217;s departure comes as the Hollywood-owned side prepare for life in the Championship after successive promotions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fletcher, who scored nine goals as Wrexham won promotion from League One, had been hoping to earn a new deal at the north Wales club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fletcher posted on social media: &#8220;I unfortunately have to announce my departure from what I can only describe as the most magical club I have ever played at!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In my 22 years of stepping onto a pitch, I have never experienced anything like this club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More to follow.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c771rzln6yno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striker Steven Fletcher has announced &#8220;with a heavy heart&#8221; he is leaving Wrexham &#8220;and not by choice&#8221;. The 38-year-old former Scotland international&#8217;s departure comes as the Hollywood-owned side prepare for life in the Championship after successive promotions. Fletcher, who scored nine goals as Wrexham won promotion from League One, had been hoping to earn a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14527,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions\/14527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}