{"id":346743,"date":"2025-08-15T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346743\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:28:09","slug":"russell-martin-speaks-on-rangers-links-to-betis-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346743\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Martin speaks on Rangers links to Betis defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Ibrox boss was asked about interest in the player and said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve never spoken to Nobel Mendy.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The central defender currently plays for Real Betis in Spain&#8217;s La Liga.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rangersreview.co.uk\/news\/25379406.nobel-mendy-contract-transfer-fee-revealed-rangers-deal-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rangers Review reported<\/a> earlier this week that the Govan club\u00a0would pay \u00a32million for Mendy, making him their tenth signing of the summer transfer window.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 20-year-old is understood to be keen on a move to Glasgow, despite interest from Rayo Vallecano.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He is expected to sign a long-term deal until the summer of 2029, with an option to extend the move for a further season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The speculation about Mendy comes as Rangers have agreed a \u00a36million deal to sell left-back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/jefte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jefte<\/a> to Brazilian club Palmeiras.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The club will make a considerable profit on the 21-year-old, who joined them for \u00a3600,000 last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ibrox boss was asked about interest in the player and said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve never spoken to Nobel Mendy.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115033256934491816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346743","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=346743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}