{"id":715580,"date":"2026-01-23T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/715580\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:22:11","slug":"not-been-communicated-at-all-mckenna-on-ogbenes-loan-spell-at-sheffield-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/715580\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not been communicated at all&#8217; &#8211; McKenna on Ogbene&#8217;s loan spell at Sheffield United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna says he has had no indication from Sheffield United that they want to cut short Chiedozie Ogbene&#8217;s loan spell.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues paid \u00a39m to sign the rapid right-winger from Luton Town following promotion to the Premier League, but he suffered a season ending Achilles injury less than three months into the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ogbene started Town&#8217;s opening two games of this season but, with Sindre Walle Egeli and Kasey McAteer subsequently signed for a combined \u00a329m, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/sport\/25433046.ipswich-town-chiedozie-ogbene-joins-sheffield-united-loan\/?ref=ed_direct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:loaned to fellow Championship club Sheffield United;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">loaned to fellow Championship club Sheffield United<\/a> on transfer deadline day.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old made nine starts and one sub appearance for the Blades in the first half of the season then suffered a hamstring injury on international duty with the Republic of Ireland in mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>In late December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/sport\/25725589.ipswich-town-chiedozie-ogbene-not-plans-sheffield-united\/?ref=ed_direct\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:it was reported that Obgene wasn&#039;t in Chris Wilder&#039;s plans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">it was reported that Obgene wasn&#8217;t in Chris Wilder&#8217;s plans<\/a>, but he was back on their bench as an unused sub for Wednesday night&#8217;s 1-0 defeat at Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ipswich take on Sheffield United at Bramall Lane tomorrow. Asked if the South Yorkshire club had spoken to Ipswich about Ogbene returning to Suffolk, McKenna replied: &#8220;No, that&#8217;s not been communicated at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was unlucky with his injury on international duty because he went out and he was getting games like we wanted him to get and he wanted to get &#8211; that was important for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was growing into the season and building up form and did well for Ireland. And then it was unfortunate to pick up the hamstring injury. But he&#8217;s back now and hopefully we get to catch up with him on Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ogbene, contracted at Ipswich until 2028, wouldn&#8217;t be able to play for another club this season having already featured for Ipswich and Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p>With Wes Burns fit again following a long-term absence, Ipswich currently have three right wing options in Walle Egeli, Burns and McAteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna says he has had no indication from Sheffield United that they want to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[29505,748,134780,4235,393,4884,67931,1926,213987,25956,35556,101,1620,4239,213986,47131,16,15,213988],"class_list":{"0":"post-715580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-bramall-lane","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-chiedozie-ogbene","11":"tag-chris-wilder","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-international-duty","15":"tag-ipswich-town","16":"tag-kasey-mcateer","17":"tag-kieran-mckenna","18":"tag-luton-town","19":"tag-premier-league","20":"tag-sheffield","21":"tag-sheffield-united","22":"tag-sindre-walle-egeli","23":"tag-transfer-deadline-day","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wes-burns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115945102601937013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715580","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=715580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}