{"id":389639,"date":"2025-09-01T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389639\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:22:10","slug":"samuel-iling-junior-joins-albion-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389639\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Iling-Junior joins Albion on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albion are delighted to confirm the signing of Samuel Iling-Junior on a season-long loan from Aston Villa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old winger, who can play on both flanks and at full-back, rose through the ranks of Chelsea\u2019s academy before switching to Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>After joining Villa last summer, he spent the first half of 2024\/25 with Serie A outfit Bologna \u2013 where he gained Champions League experience \u2013 and ended the campaign with Middlesbrough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The London-born youngster has represented England throughout the age groups and was part of the squad that won the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Iling-Junior becomes Albion\u2019s eighth signing of the summer transfer window \u2013 following the arrivals of Aune Heggeb\u00f8, Nat Phillips, George Campbell, Krystian Bielik, Toby Collyer, Chris Mepham and Alfie Gilchrist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albion are delighted to confirm the signing of Samuel Iling-Junior on a season-long loan from Aston Villa.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-389639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115129964608388104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389639","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=389639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}