Sinclair Armstrong will become the first Irish player involved in summer transfer activity when he finalises a \u20ac2.5m move to Turkish club Goztepe from Bristol City.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood the 22-year-old striker, who won his sole senior cap against the Netherlands in 2024, is in Izmir to complete his medical and formalities ahead of an official announcement.<\/p>\n
Armstrong joined the Robins from QPR in July 2024, banking his Irish club Shamrock Rovers a \u20ac700,000 chunk of the \u20ac3m fee through their 25% sell-on clause, but he endured a disappointing season.<\/p>\n
Only 10 of his 41 Championship appearances were as a starter and his goal return of four was a modest improvement on his first year\u2019s tally of three.<\/p>\n
Goztepe, owned by the same Sport Republic that has Southampton in its stable, got their man after having a lower bid rejected last September.<\/p>\n
They finished last season’s S\u00fcper Lig campaign in sixth place, one spot off European qualification, and view the Dublin-born newcomer as a vital cog in their artillery for next season.<\/p>\n
Last season, Festy Ebosele became the first Irish player to appear in the Turkish league after agreeing a long-term contract with Basaksehir FK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinclair Armstrong will become the first Irish player involved in summer transfer activity when he finalises a \u20ac2.5m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1113,61,60,2539,5782,43,5783],"class_list":["post-479848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-local-soccer","tag-news","tag-premiership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479848","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=479848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}