{"id":612911,"date":"2026-09-11T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/612911\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:08:13","slug":"bobby-amartey-sutton-sign-leicester-defender-amartey-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/612911\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Amartey: Sutton sign Leicester defender Amartey on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sutton United have signed defender Bobby Amartey on a short-term loan deal from Leicester City until the end of November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old academy player joined the Foxes at under-13 level and made his debut for both the U18s and U21s when he was 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ghana youth international played three matches for Leicester&#8217;s U21s in the Football League Trophy in 2023-2024, earning a first professional contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sutton United have made a solid start to their latest National League campaign, winning four of their opening six matches to sit fifth in the table with 12 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, they also added 20-year-old former Brighton &amp; Hove Albion academy midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cge4r9x2l9do\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Knight<\/a> on a three-month loan deal from League One club Stevenage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The U&#8217;s host Scunthorpe United in the league on Saturday (15:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sutton United have signed defender Bobby Amartey on a short-term loan deal from Leicester City until the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-612911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}