{"id":267447,"date":"2023-08-01T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/?p=267447"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T12:54:26","slug":"former-manchester-united-academy-player-dishon-bernard-signs-for-sheffield-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/2023\/08\/01\/former-manchester-united-academy-player-dishon-bernard-signs-for-sheffield-wednesday-267447\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United academy player Di&#8217;Shon Bernard signs for Sheffield Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--Article Start--><br \/>\nManchester United&#8217;s youth academy is famous for producing professional footballers, regardless of whether they go on to play for United or not.<\/p>\n<p>Di&#8217;Shon Bernard is set to add his name to the list after he signed for Championship outfit Sheffield Wednesday on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To new beginnings\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swfc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@swfc<\/a> \ud83e\udd89\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FIyYeKulB5\">pic.twitter.com\/FIyYeKulB5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BigDish \ud83e\udd18\ud83c\udffe (@DishonBernard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DishonBernard\/status\/1686099310180466688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bernard was one of the players <a href=\"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/2023\/06\/12\/dishon-bernard-confirms-permanent-manchester-united-exit-265191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whose contract expired at the end of the 2022\/23 season<\/a> and wasn&#8217;t on the club&#8217;s retained list.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard signed for United in 2017, having come through Chelsea&#8217;s youth academy in what was a highly-coveted capture.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he has had loan spells at Salford City, Hull City and Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>Securing a move to a second-tier side is a great achievement for Bernard, as he spent the last season on loan at third-tier Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>He made only 10 appearances, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.in\/dishon-bernard\/leistungsdatendetails\/spieler\/531677\/plus\/0?saison=2022&amp;verein=&amp;liga=&amp;wettbewerb=&amp;pos=&amp;trainer_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">totalling just 644 minutes of football<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was a far cry from his 2021\/22 season when he played 26 games for Hull City in the Championship and his prospects at United looked bright at that stage.<\/p>\n<p>Hull were even interested in a permanent move for the academy graduate but United ended up turning down that offer.<\/p>\n<p>However, the player failed to kick on from the successful loan spell, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/2023\/01\/12\/after-lengthy-injury-absence-dishon-bernard-eyeing-january-loan-exit-258012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most of which was down to an injury <\/a>which struck him at the worst possible time. Instead, he had to be content with scattered appearances for the reserve side.<\/p>\n<p>As a current Jamaican international, the 22-year-old centre-back has international experience which was valued highly by Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, his performances with Hull City have shown that he is arguably a Championship-level player so securing him on a free transfer is a good bit of business by the club.<\/p>\n<p>United have been keen to move on youth prospects opportunistically now to avoid a repeat of Bernard&#8217;s fate. The club could have gotten a good transfer fee for the player at the end of the 2021\/22 season on loan at Hull.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he leaves as a free agent two years after that spell, having made one senior appearance in the Europa League against Astana in Kazakhstan in 2019.<br \/>\n<!--Article End--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United&#8217;s youth academy is famous for producing professional footballers, regardless of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94173,"featured_media":240791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3326],"tags":[4432,2513,1608,3953,3487],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Manchester United academy player Di&#039;Shon Bernard signs for Sheffield Wednesday - Man United News And Transfer News | The Peoples Person<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Di&#039;Shon Bernard has signed for Championship side Sheffield Wednesday after the expiry of his Manchester United contract\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thepeoplesperson.com\/2023\/08\/01\/former-manchester-united-academy-player-dishon-bernard-signs-for-sheffield-wednesday-267447\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Manchester United academy player Di&#039;Shon Bernard signs for Sheffield Wednesday - 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