{"id":141377,"date":"2025-05-29T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141377\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:24:16","slug":"walsall-player-close-to-making-scotland-move-after-three-seasons-at-bescot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/141377\/","title":{"rendered":"Walsall player close to making Scotland move after three seasons at Bescot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple reports north of the border say the 24-year-old is set to agree a deal with the Scottish Premier League club.<\/p>\n<p>McEntee is one of 13 Saddlers players due to be out of contract this summer and is available on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts\u2019 Edinburgh rivals, Hibernian, are also thought to have shown an interest in the Irishman, who played for Greenock Morton before moving to Bescot three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>McEntee, who can play in both defence and midfield, made 37 appearances this season, coming off the bench in Monday\u2019s League Two play-off final defeat to Wimbledon following an injury sustained by Harry Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Walsall are expected to confirm their released and retained list on Friday with a significant shake-up of the squad possible.<\/p>\n<p>Only seven players are currently contracted for next season, while a further seven loan players are due to return to their parent clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Centre-back Williams, who is being assessed for the injury he sustained at Wembley, and full-back Liam Gordon are among those due to be out of contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple reports north of the border say the 24-year-old is set to agree a deal with the Scottish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,94,4884,712,93,14,16,15,19400],"class_list":{"0":"post-141377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-walsall-fc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114591109208238527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}