{"id":254391,"date":"2026-01-20T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254391\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:32:09","slug":"fulham-lead-troy-parrott-race-as-three-clubs-target-republic-of-ireland-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/254391\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulham lead Troy Parrott race as three clubs target Republic of Ireland hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AZ Alkmaar's Troy Parrott celebrates after scoring against Ajax Amsterdam at AFAS Stadion in Alkmaar, Netherlands last week. Photo: Ed van de Pol\/BSR Agency\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7f1ba599-afdc-4915-b063-28a6705125ae.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">AZ Alkmaar&#8217;s Troy Parrott celebrates after scoring against Ajax Amsterdam at AFAS Stadion in Alkmaar, Netherlands last week. Photo: Ed van de Pol\/BSR Agency\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Fulham are battling Wolfsburg and Real Betis in the race to sign Troy Parrott following his huge impact in the Republic of Ireland\u2019s quest to qualify for the World Cup 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">So far, the trio are the clubs that have gone in strongest in what is expected to be a wide race for the AZ Alkmaar forward over the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AZ Alkmaar&#8217;s Troy Parrott celebrates after scoring against Ajax Amsterdam at AFAS Stadion in Alkmaar, Netherlands last week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-254391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254391","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=254391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}