{"id":397223,"date":"2026-01-29T17:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397223\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:25:13","slug":"ipswich-town-afc-wrexham-register-interest-in-sammie-szmodics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397223\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town: AFC Wrexham register interest in Sammie Szmodics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The EADT and Ipswich Star revealed yesterday that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/sport\/25803462.ipswich-town-reject-derby-county-bid-sammie-szmodics\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blues had rejected a bid from Derby County<\/a> for the 30-year-old.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsPeteO?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Football Insider&#8217;s Pete O&#8217;Rourke<\/a>, fellow Championship club Wrexham have made their interest in the player known.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It&#8217;s understood that the Blues would be open to selling a player who endured an injury-hit 2025, but that they are not willing to take a huge hit on the \u00a39m paid to Blackburn just 18 months ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25800835.loan-fit---verdict-latest-town-signing-dan-neil\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why a loan? Where does he fit? &#8211; Verdict on latest Town signing Dan Neil<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wrexham, gunning for a third straight promotion, are currently sixth in the table. Derby, managed by Szmodics&#8217; former Blackburn boss John Eustace, currently sit two points outside the play-offs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Szmodics, contracted until 2028, has scored one goal in eight starts and 10 substitute appearances this season. When everyone&#8217;s fit, he has Jaden Philogene and Jack Clarke ahead of him for the left wing role and faces competition from Marcelino Nunez and new signing Anis Mehmeti for the No.10 spot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Negotiations over a potential departure are now likely to drag into deadline day. It remains to be seen if he is involved in Town&#8217;s home game against Preston North End on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EADT and Ipswich Star revealed yesterday that the Blues had rejected a bid from Derby County for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-397223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}