{"id":19589,"date":"2025-09-10T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scottish-gossip-martin-montgomery-dolcek-king-graham-baraclough-fraser\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:18:20","slug":"scottish-gossip-martin-montgomery-dolcek-king-graham-baraclough-fraser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/scottish-gossip-martin-montgomery-dolcek-king-graham-baraclough-fraser\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gossip: Martin, Montgomery, Dol\u010dek, King, Graham, Baraclough, Fraser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russell Martin retains the backing of <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rangers&#8217;<\/b> owners for now despite the head coach losing the support of many of the Scottish Premiership club&#8217;s fans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/rangers-updated-russell-martin-sack-stance-revealed-fans-in-mutiny\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Football Insider)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Nottingham Forest<\/b> head coach Ange Postecoglou may bring former Scotland Under-21 international and ex-Hibernian boss Nick Montgomery, who was one of his assistants with Tottenham Hotspur, with him to the City Ground. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-15080629\/Nottingham-Forest-appoint-Ange-Postecoglou-new-manager-Nuno-Espirito-Santos-sacked-following-falling-Evangelos-Marinakis.html\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Daily Mail)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Partick Thistle<\/b> sporting director Ian Baraclough has revealed how his horror honeymoon swimming accident in Mauritius in June left him fearing he might never walk again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/15322623\/partick-thistle-ian-baraclough-honeymoon-freak-accident-mauritius\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Scottish Sun)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dundee United<\/b> and <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dunjaska Streda<\/b> have agreed a fee for the permanent transfer of on-loan winger Ivan Dol\u010dek, but the Croat has not yet agreed personal terms and negotiations between the 25-year-old and the Premiership club could stretch until January. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DUFC_FEED\/status\/1965530142949904674\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(DUFCFEED on X)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steven Pressley is looking at midfielders available as free agents as Cesar Garza could be involved with Mexico at the Under-20 World Cup until mid-October, but <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dundee&#8217;s<\/b> head coach admits &#8220;there&#8217;s not a lot out there at the moment&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/dundee-fc\/5327447\/dundee-midfield-conundrum-duo-ruled-out-steven-pressley\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(The Courier)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dundee&#8217;s<\/b> 21-year-old centre-half, Luke Graham, has expressed relief that he turned down a lucrative move to a Premier League club when he was a teenager and instead gained first-team experience on loan to Lochee United, Albion Rovers, Montrose and Falkirk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/sport\/25451107.dundee-defender-luke-graham-glad-snubbed-premier-league-move\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(The Herald)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ayr United<\/b> manager Scott Brown believes Leon King, who is on loan from <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rangers<\/b>, can still achieve the levels he was expected to reach when the 21-year-old centre-half broke into the first team at Ibrox as a teenager. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/sport\/25453826.scott-brown-shares-leon-king-motivation-rangers-loan\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(Glasgow Times)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scott Fraser, who left <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dundee<\/b> this summer, is now on trial with <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ross County<\/b> after the 30-year-old midfielder&#8217;s training spell with Championship rivals <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">St Johnstone<\/b> came to an end. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/sport\/football\/st-johnstone\/5328339\/st-johnstone-jannik-wanner-scott-fraser\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">(The Courier)<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn4wx4e3eewo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Martin retains the backing of Rangers&#8217; owners for now despite the head coach losing the support of many of the Scottish Premiership club&#8217;s fans. (Football Insider), external New Nottingham Forest head coach Ange Postecoglou may bring former Scotland Under-21 international and ex-Hibernian boss Nick Montgomery, who was one of his assistants with Tottenham Hotspur, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19591,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions\/19591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}