{"id":25634,"date":"2026-02-09T03:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/frank-onyeka-brentford-midfielder-joins-coventry-city-on-loan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T03:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:34:22","slug":"frank-onyeka-brentford-midfielder-joins-coventry-city-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/frank-onyeka-brentford-midfielder-joins-coventry-city-on-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Onyeka: Brentford midfielder joins Coventry City on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Championship leaders Coventry City have signed Brentford midfielder Frank Onyeka on loan for the rest of the season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deal will become permanent should the Sky Blues succeed in winning promotion to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Onyeka, 28, joined the Bees from Danish Superliga side Midtjylland in 2021 and has made 87 appearances for them, scoring once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Nigeria international has played six times in the Premier League this season, all as a substitute, and started for the Super Eagles in their Africa Cup of Nations semi-final shoot-out defeat to Morocco. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent last season on loan with Augsburg, making 30 starts in the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Onyeka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/february\/02\/frank-onyeka-joins-the-sky-blues-\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">said:<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> &#8220;I&#8217;m a strong midfielder, I&#8217;m a winner and I always want to fight for my team-mates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My aim is to give 100%, bring my experience and help the team get promoted to the Premier League and bring glory to the city again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy7mzzn3dg6o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Championship leaders Coventry City have signed Brentford midfielder Frank Onyeka on loan for the rest of the season. The deal will become permanent should the Sky Blues succeed in winning promotion to the Premier League. Onyeka, 28, joined the Bees from Danish Superliga side Midtjylland in 2021 and has made 87 appearances for them, scoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634","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=25634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25636,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions\/25636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}