Sinclair Armstrong will become the first Irish player involved in summer transfer activity when he finalises a \u20ac2.5m move to Turkish club Goztepe from Bristol City.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood the 22-year-old striker, who won his sole senior cap against the Netherlands in 2023, is in Izmir to complete his medical and formalities ahead of an official announcement.<\/p>\n
Armstrong joined the Robins from QPR in July 2024, banking his Irish club Shamrock Rovers a \u20ac700,000 chunk of the \u20ac3m fee through their 25% sell-on clause, but he endured a disappointing season.<\/p>\n
Only 10 of his 41 Championship appearances were as a starter and his goal return of four was a modest improvement on his first year\u2019s tally of three.<\/p>\n
Goztepe, owned by the same Sport Republic that has Southampton in its stable, got their man after having a lower bid rejected last September.<\/p>\n
They finished last season’s S\u00fcper Lig campaign in sixth place, one spot off European qualification, and view the Dublin-born newcomer as a vital cog in their artillery for next season.<\/p>\n
Last season, Festy Ebosele became the first Irish player to appear in the Turkish league after agreeing a long-term contract with Basaksehir FK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinclair Armstrong will become the first Irish player involved in summer transfer activity when he finalises a \u20ac2.5m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,18142,19,17,6435,18143,18144,132],"class_list":["post-516017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-local-soccer","tag-premiership","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116684681937965671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516017","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=516017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}