Former Sheffield Wednesday trialist released alongside promotion heroes after relegation blow
Duncan Watmore, who spent a few weeks with Sheffield Wednesday towards the end of 2025, is once again looking for a new club.
Rotherham United have released former Sheffield Wednesday trialist Duncan Watmore following a short stint at the New York Stadium.
Watmore was a player Wednesday monitored for a number of weeks during the campaign after he started training with the club at Middlewood Road back in November. Wednesday, at that juncture, were permitted to bring in one more free agent after earlier landing former Leeds United captain Liam Cooper.
Wednesday, of course, ended up filling that second free agent slot with the signing of former Southampton winger Nathan Redmond. However, injuries restricted him to just seven substitute appearances for the club and he swiftly departed.
Watmore continued to train with the Owls and featured for the Under-21s not long before Christmas. Manager Henrik Pedersen, later that week, revealed it was looking unlikely that he would be able to bolster his squad in the January window - a scenario which eventually changed.
Following a period of uncertainty and talk of a move to Rotherham being on, off and then on again, he eventually joined the Millers in February, signing a deal until the end of the season. Making 13 appearances for the New York Stadium outfit, he was unable to prevent them from being relegated to League Two, scoring just one goal.
Rotherham have now issued their end-of-season retained list, confirming Watmore, who had been without a club since leaving Millwall at the end of last season prior to joining the Millers, has been released.
He has been let go alongside former Wednesday duo Cameron Dawson and Reece James after they were informed they would not be receiving new deals. The pair joined the Millers in the summer of 2024 after leaving the Owls.
The duo, who played key roles in helping Wednesday climb out of League One in 2023, both starting the Miracle of Hillsborough against Peterborough United en route to beating Barnsley in the play-off final at Wembley, made a combined total of 79 appearances for Rotherham between them this season.