{"id":698304,"date":"2026-01-15T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698304\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:36:10","slug":"yunus-konak-oxford-united-sign-brentford-midfielder-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/698304\/","title":{"rendered":"Yunus Konak: Oxford United sign Brentford midfielder on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Oxford United have signed Yunus Konak on loan from Premier League side Brentford for the remainder of the season. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old defensive midfielder is the U&#8217;s third signing of the January transfer window and the first addition since new head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c14rnnz646go\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Bloomfield took over less than a week ago. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Konak joined Brentford in 2024 and has since made 14 appearances for the Bees as well as playing eight times for the under-21 side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moving to Brentford was his first club footballing venture outside of Turkey where he played for Sivasspor before making the switch to England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also represented Turkey at under-18s and under-21s level. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think he&#8217;s a player with high potential and a big future,&#8221; Oxford boss Bloomfield told BBC Radio Oxford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s someone who the club got close to in the summer and someone they&#8217;ve been monitoring for a while, I know the guys at Brentford and they speak so highly of Yunus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think that his freshness and that athleticism can really help us where we need it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oxford United have signed Yunus Konak on loan from Premier League side Brentford for the remainder of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-698304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115900801605510070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698304","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=698304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}