{"id":256257,"date":"2026-01-21T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:37:09","slug":"ive-learned-a-lot-about-myself-recently-michael-obafemi-desperate-to-get-back-on-track-following-loan-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256257\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve learned a lot about myself recently\u2019 \u2013 Michael Obafemi \u2018desperate\u2019 to get back on track following loan move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Obafemi has moved to Blackpool\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/szMichael Obafemi.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Michael Obafemi has moved to Blackpool<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland forward Michael Obafemi is \u201cdesperate\u201d to get back on track at Blackpool according to his new boss, after signing on loan with the League One club until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It marks the 25-year-old\u2019s fourth loan spell since signing for Burnley in 2023, after stints at Millwall and Plymouth Argyle before he signed for German side VfL Bochum last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Obafemi has moved to Blackpool Ireland forward Michael Obafemi is \u201cdesperate\u201d to get back on track at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,4876,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-256257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sean-oconnor","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}