{"id":95230,"date":"2025-08-27T01:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/95230\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:10:12","slug":"english-league-one-side-barnsley-head-race-for-ayr-united-starlet-dylan-watret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/95230\/","title":{"rendered":"English League One side Barnsley head race for Ayr United starlet Dylan Watret"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highly rated Watret is on the radar of a number of clubs south of the border following his breakthrough season.Watret, right, is a target for Barnsley<\/p>\n

Barnsley are leading the race for Ayr starlet Dylan Watret.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old Academy graduate is on the radar of the Yorkshire club.<\/p>\n

Colliers boss Conor Hourihane is looking to take the United full back south.<\/p>\n

A potential six figure deal has been discussed with the League One outfit, the Ayrshire Post understands.<\/p>\n

Ayr are keen to explore a number of options on their prized asset, which could include a loan back to Somerset Park.<\/p>\n

A string of clubs south of the border are tracking Watret following his breakthrough season. The teenager featured 32 times for Scott Brown’s side last term.<\/p>\n

Manchester City and Nottingham Forest are among those to have run the rule over Watret. Championship side Millwall have also declared an interest.<\/p>\n

Scott Brown and Ayr are keen not to lose Watret on the cheap<\/p>\n

But it’s Barnsley who have jumped to the head of the queue after showing a solid hand this summer.<\/p>\n

Watret is currently tied to a long term deal at Ayr which runs until the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n

And Somerset chiefs are keen not to sell on the cheap, with Watret having 41 appearances under his belt already.<\/p>\n

Watret, who has been at Ayr since the age of nine, rose through their youth setup and made his first team debut under Lee Bullen aged just 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highly rated Watret is on the radar of a number of clubs south of the border following his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[47077,47079,47078,218,47076,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-95230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-ayr-united-fc","tag-ayrshire-football","tag-ayrshire-news","tag-football","tag-scott-brown","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95230","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=95230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}