{"id":707094,"date":"2026-07-23T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707094\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:10:10","slug":"sammie-szmodics-derby-county-looking-to-sign-ipswich-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707094\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammie Szmodics: Derby County looking to sign Ipswich forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derby County are edging closer to bringing Ipswich forward Sammie Szmodics back to the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rams are trying to sign the 30-year-old in a deal worth more than \u00a34m after he spent the second half of last season at the Championship club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the move goes through he will link up with boss John Eustace for a third time, having also worked with him at Blackburn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Republic of Ireland international Szmodics scored three goals in 13 games as Derby finished eighth last term, four points adrift of the play-offs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under Eustace at Blackburn he won the division&#8217;s Golden Boot when he scored 27 goals in 2023-24. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ipswich have been open to letting Szmodics leave this summer but he has been with the group during pre-season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They paid Blackburn \u00a39m in 2024 and he has scored five goals in 39 appearances for the Tractor Boys. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby County are edging closer to bringing Ipswich forward Sammie Szmodics back to the club. The Rams are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707094","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=707094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}