{"id":612862,"date":"2026-09-03T03:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612862\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:44:11","slug":"omobamidele-joins-anderlecht-in-surprise-loan-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612862\/","title":{"rendered":"Omobamidele joins Anderlecht in surprise loan move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republic of Ireland international Andrew Omobamidele has completed a surprise loan move from Strasbourg to Belgian side Anderlecht.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old defender had captained the French side as recently as their 2-1 victory over Lens on 29 August.<\/p>\n<p>But Omobamidele will now spend the coming season in the Belgian capital where European football is on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Anderlecht are in the Europa League after a comfortable 6-0 aggregate victory over Kairat in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>They came fourth in the Belgian Pro League last season, 24 points off Club Brugge in first.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland team-mate Josh Cullen, now of Burnley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2021\/1223\/1268399-cullen-reaping-rewards-of-time-with-club-and-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously played for Anderlecht<\/a> for two seasons between 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Omobamidele made 54 appearances in all competitions for Strasbourg after joining from Nottingham Forest in January 2025, scoring one goal.<\/p>\n<p>That included 12 games in the side&#8217;s run to the Conference League semi-finals last season.<\/p>\n<p>Watch two FAI Cup quarter-finals live on RT\u00c9 2 and RT\u00c9 Player this weekend &#8211; St Patrick&#8217;s Athletic v Bohemians from 3.45pm on Saturday and Derry City v Dundalk from 3.45pm on Sunday<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"X3NET7wKHJA\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republic of Ireland international Andrew Omobamidele has completed a surprise loan move from Strasbourg to Belgian side Anderlecht.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-612862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612862","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=612862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}