{"id":689909,"date":"2026-07-13T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689909\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:26:11","slug":"jusef-erabi-preston-sign-striker-on-loan-from-genk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689909\/","title":{"rendered":"Jusef Erabi: Preston sign striker on loan from Genk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston North End have signed striker Jusef Erabi on a season-long loan deal from Genk to make the Swede their third summer signing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Erabi, 23, joined Genk from Hammarby in his native Sweden in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Preston have the option to make the deal permanent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been speaking to the staff and the people around the club and it looks amazing,&#8221; Erabi, who is of Afghan descent, told the club website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I saw the club and how they play, I was impressed, I had a good feeling and I really wanted to get it done as fast as I could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manager Paul Heckingbottom added: &#8220;Jusef is a good technical all-round striker. He&#8217;s physically really good and likes to make runs in behind, but is also strong enough to hold the ball up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will work really hard to give him the best platform to go out and show what he can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preston North End have signed striker Jusef Erabi on a season-long loan deal from Genk to make the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689909","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=689909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}