{"id":363250,"date":"2025-08-21T23:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363250\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T23:18:20","slug":"ni-midfielder-will-be-on-premier-league-radar-after-hot-start-to-season-believes-michael-oneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363250\/","title":{"rendered":"NI midfielder will be on Premier League radar after hot start to season, believes Michael O\u2019Neill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Isaac Price\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e10c48e9-65da-4c2c-a827-4afca8f354e1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Isaac Price<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Northern Ireland manager Michael O\u2019Neill believes Isaac Price will be on the radar of Premier League clubs following his explosive start to the season with West Bromwich Albion in the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Price, who moved to West Brom from Standard Liege in January, has scored three times in two League games, taking the Baggies to second spot in the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That electric form mirrors what he has delivered for Northern Ireland, netting nine goals in just 22 internationals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThe position that he plays for us is probably where West Brom are starting to see him play,\u201d said O\u2019Neill at his squad announcement for next month\u2019s World Cup games in Luxembourg and Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cHe&#8217;s arriving in the box, he&#8217;s scoring from outside the box. He gives you great athleticism as well. His versatility is a good thing to have.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI think that there&#8217;s no better thing than a player that can change a game and change key moments in a game, and Isaac&#8217;s doing that on a consistent basis. That\u2019s going to make him very much in the eyeline of a lot of clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cHe\u2019ll believe that he&#8217;s going to a club that can get promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI believe he is a Premier League player and the most important thing is that he keeps playing the way he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Asked if he felt that Premier League clubs would be looking at Price, who did play for Everton as a teenager in the top flight prior to his move to Standard Liege in 2023, O\u2019Neill said: \u201cWell, I know how clubs operate. So, if you&#8217;ve got a 21-year-old that&#8217;s scored nine goals in 22 (caps) and you&#8217;re not looking at him, you&#8217;re not doing your job very well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cSo I&#8217;d assume that, yeah, these players are watched and I know they&#8217;re watched.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac Price Northern Ireland manager Michael O\u2019Neill believes Isaac Price will be on the radar of Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[31133,8543,1144,8538,30649,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-363250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-michael-oneill","9":"tag-national-stadium-at-windsor-park","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","12":"tag-steven-beacom","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115069314943033443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363250","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=363250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}