{"id":74810,"date":"2025-08-17T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74810\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:26:07","slug":"st-johnstones-mackenzie-kirk-attracting-attention-scottish-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/74810\/","title":{"rendered":"St Johnstone&#8217;s Mackenzie Kirk attracting attention &#8211; Scottish gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Portsmouth are linked with St Johnstone forward Makenzie Kirk after Peterborough had a \u00a3500,000 bid for the 21-year-old rejected. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15220594\/spfl-club-reject-bid-striker-efl-championship-transfer\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Sun), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bidding for Kirk is set to go above \u00a3500,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/st-johnstone\/5311199\/makenzie-kirk-st-johnstone-portsmouth\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Courier &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rangers will not be signing Real Betis defender Nobel Mendy, 21, imminently after talks collapsed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-transfer-news\/nobel-mendy-rangers-transfer-talks-35742105\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicola Docherty backs new Rangers women head coach Leanne Crichton to change the mentality at the SWPL side. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/football\/25395613.docherty-confident-crichton-can-lead-rangers-swpl-title-charge\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Herald &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Rangers midfielder Thomas Buffel urges fellow Belgian Nico Raskin to ignore transfer speculation and focus on his Ibrox career. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/nico-raskin-given-rangers-transfer-35742189\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managing director John Nelms describes the length of time it&#8217;s taking for Dundee&#8217;s new stadium to be approved as &#8220;curious&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/sport\/football\/scottish-premiership-club-increasingly-alarmed-by-new-stadium-delays-as-costs-hit-ps35m-and-counting-5274766?cx_testId=5&amp;cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&amp;cx_artPos=1&amp;cx_experienceId=EX2NAIW0WFIR&amp;cx_experienceActionId=showRecommendationsK080OZDSLLXE8#cxrecs_s\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Scotsman &#8211; subscription required), external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Cadden expects Hibernian team-mate Kieron Bowie to be lining up as Scotland&#8217;s number nine soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/kieron-bowie-gets-hibs-backing-35742136\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(Record), external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portsmouth are linked with St Johnstone forward Makenzie Kirk after Peterborough had a \u00a3500,000 bid for the 21-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-74810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}