{"id":310163,"date":"2025-08-01T20:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310163\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T20:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:38:13","slug":"sheffield-united-star-poised-for-loan-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310163\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United Star Poised For Loan Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> George Wood\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Newly-promoted Turkish Super Lig side Fatih Karagumruk have reached an agreement with <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a> outfit <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/sheffield-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheffield United<\/a> to take goalkeeper Ivo Grbic on loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was signed by the Blades from Atletico Madrid in January last year, while Sheffield United were still playing in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite being manager Chris Wilder\u2019s first-choice between the sticks initially, he was dropped to the bench following a few disappointing performances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2024, he was sent out on loan to Turkey with Caykur Rizespor.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After featuring 23 times for the Turkish side, he is back at his parent club and is awaiting clarity on his future, which now looks to be away from Bramall Lane.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Hull_Ruben_Selles_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Turkish journalist <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yagosabuncuoglu\/status\/1951330294960890225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yagiz Sabuncuoglu<\/a>, newly-promoted Super Lig outfit Fatih Karagumruk have reached an agreement with Sheffield United for the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Croatian international is set to join the Turkish Super Lig side on loan for the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nGame<br \/>\nCompetition<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Bristol City (H)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Championship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Birmingham City (A)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">EFL Cup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Swansea City (A)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Championship<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Sheffield United\u2019s first three games<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether that move will include an option to buy remains to be seen, but Grbic is leaving the Blades once again.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following their failure to clinch promotion to the top-flight, Sheffield United have a crucial season up ahead as they go at it yet again on 9th August against Bristol City.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/General_Football3_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United are set to lose striker Kieffer Moore to Wrexham <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/01\/wrexham-may-have-to-wait-for-sheffield-united-star\/689945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but want a replacement in through the Bramall Lane door before sanctioning an exit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are currently in talks with Oli McBurnie, who previously played for Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is seen as a natural replacement for Moore, but the Blades face competition for his signature and are likely to have alternative options in mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Wood\/Getty Images \u00a0 Newly-promoted Turkish Super Lig side Fatih Karagumruk have reached an agreement with Championship outfit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-310163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955441385520612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310163","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=310163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}