{"id":742218,"date":"2026-08-18T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:42:09","slug":"yunus-konak-lincoln-city-sign-brentford-midfielder-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742218\/","title":{"rendered":"Yunus Konak: Lincoln City sign Brentford midfielder on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Championship newcomers Lincoln City have signed Yunus Konak from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brentford\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brentford<\/a> on a season-long loan immediately after the midfielder agreed to a new five-year deal with the Premier League side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old, who also has an additional 12-month option in his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brentford\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brentford<\/a> contract, has made 10 substitute appearances for the Bees in the top flight since joining the London club from Sivasspor in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spent the later part of the 2025-26 season on loan in the Championship with Oxford, featuring 16 times in a campaign that ended in relegation to League One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lincoln&#8217;s sporting director Jez George said the Turkey under-21 international has been the the club&#8217;s &#8220;number one&#8221; target when looking to bolster the midfield this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a number six, we feel as though all his out of possession attributes fit perfectly to our game model and that we can help him to develop some of his other qualities in how we play with the ball,&#8221; George told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weareimps.com\/\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Konak moves to Lincolnshire just three days after the club started its first campaign in the second tier for 65 years with an opening-day defeat by Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Imps are next at home on Saturday against Portsmouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Championship newcomers Lincoln City have signed Yunus Konak from Brentford on a season-long loan immediately after the midfielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742218","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\/742218","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=742218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}