{"id":31514,"date":"2026-06-29T23:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ben-godfrey-rangers-sign-ex-everton-defender-on-loan-from-atalanta\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:37:47","slug":"ben-godfrey-rangers-sign-ex-everton-defender-on-loan-from-atalanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/ben-godfrey-rangers-sign-ex-everton-defender-on-loan-from-atalanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Godfrey: Rangers sign ex-Everton defender on loan from Atalanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Impressive form earlier in Godfrey&#8217;s career took him from Norwich to Everton in a deal worth a reported \u00a320m in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capable of playing centre-back and full-back, he has two England caps but has had limited minutes since moving to Atalanta in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has played just five times for the Serie A club, and his move to Ibrox is his fourth loan in the past two years after stints at Ipswich Town, Sheffield United and Brondby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However Rangers manager Derek McInnes is pleased to be signing a player who has &#8220;competed at a very high level throughout his career&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;He&#8217;s played in the Premier League, been involved with England, and brings a lot of experience with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a strong, athletic defender with good qualities both on and off the ball, and we believe he can add a lot to the squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9v2xjnwn2vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressive form earlier in Godfrey&#8217;s career took him from Norwich to Everton in a deal worth a reported \u00a320m in 2020. Capable of playing centre-back and full-back, he has two England caps but has had limited minutes since moving to Atalanta in 2024. He has played just five times for the Serie A club, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31514","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=31514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31516,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31514\/revisions\/31516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}