{"id":359974,"date":"2025-08-20T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:32:13","slug":"portsmouth-to-bid-for-peterborough-and-bristol-rovers-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359974\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth To Bid For Peterborough And Bristol Rovers Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> George Wood\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a> side Portsmouth are expected to make a bid for St Johnstone star and Bristol Rovers and Peterborough United target Makenzie Kirk, according to the <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/transfer-news-live-rangers-celtic-35747375?utm_source=linkCopy&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=sharebar#entry835537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St Johnstone brought in Kirk from Hearts last summer and he scored eight times in 35 games for the Scottish side, making an impression in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Saints suffered relegation last season despite Kirk\u2019s efforts and he has a host of suitors in the market keen to snap him up.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From south of the border, the former Hearts star is attracting interest from English Championship outfit Portsmouth and <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/league-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League One<\/a> and League Two outfits Peterborough United and Bristol Rovers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posh, in the hope of stealing a march on their rivals for Kirk\u2019s signature, went in with multiple bids to St Johnstone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Peterborough_Darren_Ferguson_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St Johnstone have already knocked back two offers from Scottish Premiership sides with a six-figure bid from a Scottish Championship side.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Portsmouth do not want to get their rivals ahead of them and it has been claimed that they are expected to go in with a bid for Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nClub<br \/>\nLeague<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Portsmouth<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Championship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Peterborough United<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">League One<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Bristol Rovers<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">League Two<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Clubs keen on Makenzie Kirk<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish outfit do not want to lose Kirk, who has begun the season in a brilliant fashion by scoring four goals in six games in all competitions so far, as they will be left short in the striker department.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Portsmouth are keen on bringing in a forward this summer, as they have been left with only Colby Bishop and Thomas Waddingham after the departures of Kusini Yengi and Christian Saydee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Portsmouth_John_Mousinho5_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Peterborough United are also desperate to get their hands on Kirk as they have lost four straight league games, managing to score only once.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bristol Rovers meanwhile want a quick return to League One, but have lost three and drawn one of their opening four League Two games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As such, the Mem may not be as much of an attractive move for Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All eyes will be on how the situation develops over the coming days as the St Johnstone star is very much in demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Wood\/Getty Images \u00a0 Championship side Portsmouth are expected to make a bid for St Johnstone star and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-359974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115062292267578349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359974","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=359974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}