{"id":27059,"date":"2025-08-27T18:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27059\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:37:13","slug":"finn-azaz-signs-for-southampton-on-15m-deal-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27059\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Azaz signs for Southampton on \u00a315m deal \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Republic of Ireland international Finn Azaz has signed for Championship side Southampton, leaving Middlesbrough on a reported \u00a315 million deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The sum is understood to be made up of an initial \u00a312 million fee plus \u00a33 million in add-ons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 24-year-old midfielder joined Middlesbrough at the start of 2024, scoring 17 goals in 67 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The latest of those scores came on Saturday when Azaz bagged the opening goal in Middlesbrough\u2019s 2-1 away win over Norwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Southampton are currently 10th in the Championship while Middlesbrough sit second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland international Finn Azaz has signed for Championship side Southampton, leaving Middlesbrough on a reported \u00a315&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,6634,22051,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-27059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","12":"tag-southampton-fc","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}