{"id":242324,"date":"2026-01-13T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/242324\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:28:15","slug":"andrews-excited-to-sign-teenage-striker-furo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/242324\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrews &#8216;excited&#8217; to sign teenage striker Furo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brentford manager Keith Andrews says the club are excited to sign 18-year-old striker Kaye Furo from Club Brugge for a fee believed to be in the region of \u20ac9.2m.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian youth international has signed a five-and-a-half-year deal, subject to international clearance.<\/p>\n<p>The 6ft 3in centre-forward has scored once in eight appearances across the Belgian Pro League and Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Furo follows the same path as the Premier League&#8217;s second-top scorer Igo Thiago, who moved to the Gtech Community Stadium in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kaye is someone we have tracked for a while that we are really excited about bringing to the club,&#8221; Andrews told the official club website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His attributes are ones that I like and feel we can develop within the environment we have created. I have no doubt he will be a big player for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brentford advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup with a 2-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday and occupy fifth place in the Premier League table in Andrews&#8217; maiden season in charge at the west London club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford manager Keith Andrews says the club are excited to sign 18-year-old striker Kaye Furo from Club Brugge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-242324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}