{"id":394598,"date":"2026-01-28T07:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394598\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:34:17","slug":"hull-kr-recruit-to-spend-full-season-away-as-new-deal-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394598\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull KR recruit to spend full season away as new deal confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deal has been confirmed, with a key piece of detail.\"Hull<\/p>\n

Hull KR’s Jumah Sambou has headed out on loan.<\/p>\n

Hull KR new recruit Jumah Sambou is set to spend the entire 2026 season on loan in the Championship, with no recall clause included.<\/p>\n

The outside-back has agreed a season-long loan move to Widnes Vikings, with the Robins unable to recall him during their title-defending 2026 Super League campaign.<\/p>\n

Sambou joined Hull KR<\/a> on a three-year deal during the off-season, but competition is fierce at Sewell Group Craven Park, with Peta Hiku, Oliver Gildart and Jack Broadbent all competing for places in the centres.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old featured in Hull KR\u2019s sole pre-season outing ahead of the new Super League season, catching the eye despite the defeat against Wakefield Trinity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A long-term project, he will now continue his development in the second tier with Widnes, aiming to secure consistent game time after two injury-disrupted seasons.<\/p>\n

Sambou has been restricted to just 10 appearances across the past two campaigns, but showed enough quality to attract the attention of head coach Willie Peters and his staff.<\/p>\n

He could make his Widnes debut this weekend against North Wales Crusaders, before the Vikings host Leeds Rhinos in the third round of the Challenge Cup.<\/p>\n

Widnes head coach Allan Coleman said: \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to get Jumah in. I think everyone saw last year, before his injury, that he was one of the best centres in the Championship and he rightfully earned his move to Hull KR.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe adds real power and agility to our backline, which gives us some strong options. To get him for the full season is massive for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deal has been confirmed, with a key piece of detail. Hull KR’s Jumah Sambou has headed out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20372,5903,20370,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-hull-kr","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}