{"id":291381,"date":"2025-07-25T19:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291381\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T19:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:34:13","slug":"northern-ireland-football-michael-forbes-joins-league-one-side-northampton-town-on-loan-from-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/291381\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland football: Michael Forbes joins League One side Northampton Town on loan from West Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Northern Ireland defender Michael Forbes has joined Northampton Town on loan<\/p>\n

Northern Ireland international Michael Forbes has joined League One side Northampton Town on a season-long loan from West Ham.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old former Dungannon Swifts youngster featured seven times on loan at Bristol Rovers in the 2024\/25 season.<\/p>\n

He made his senior international debut in a Euro 2024 qualifier against Finland in November 2023.<\/p>\n

Town boss Kevin Nolan said: \u201cMichael is a player I have known for a long time. He was a youth team player at West Ham when I was there. I know what he is capable of and the levels he is capable of reaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had some really bad luck last season but he is back now and we feel we can provide the platform for Michael to develop and kick on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe we can help him reach the levels we know he is capable of and that includes playing international football again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to thank West Ham United for trusting us with Michael. We are building a really good relationship and hopefully all parties can benefit from Michael’s time with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe said earlier in the week we were looking to strengthen in all areas and Michael’s signing is part of that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dungannon, Linfield and Larne did us all proud\u2026 now they can deliver a European night to remember<\/a><\/p>\n

Why surge in our clubs signing players from outside the Irish League can be a real positive for all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland defender Michael Forbes has joined Northampton Town on loan Northern Ireland international Michael Forbes has joined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,8538,101,16,15,11846],"class_list":{"0":"post-291381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","10":"tag-premier-league","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-west-ham-united-fc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114915552039825100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}