Middlesbrough In Talks To Sign Onyeka On Loan

Middlesbrough are in talks to sign Brentford Nigeria midfielder Frank Onyeka on a season-long loan.

Championship club Middlesbrough have allowed midfielders Marcus Tavernier and Martin Payero to depart the club this summer, whilst last season’s loanee James-Lea Siliki returned to his parent club.

During the window so far they have brought in just one midfielder to replace the outgoing trio, with Alex Mowatt signing from fellow Championship side West Brom.

And according to Sky Sports journalist Lyall Thomas, Middlesbrough boss Chris Wilder is now ready to address this problem position with the acquisition of Onyeka.

Having signed from Danish side Midtjylland last summer, the 24-year-old has gone on to make 21 appearance in the Premier League for the Bees. However, he finds himself down the pecking order, playing for just 10 minutes in the current campaign.

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Boro have now entered into talks with the player ahead of a proposed season-long loan deal, as the Teessiders look to get the player signed ahead of the transfer deadline later this week.

Middlesbrough are lacking in midfield as things stand. Wilder has preferred to play with four central-midfielders, but there are only five names at his disposal, one of which is Paddy McNair who the Boro boss prefers to play in the back three. Therefore the signing of Onyeka would give more competition for places.

After moving from Nigerian club FC Ebedei to Midtjylland in Denmark in January 2016, Onyeka established himself as part of the club, and on 20 September 2017 he made his first-team debut in the Danish Cup in a 7–0 win over Greve Fodbold where he also scored.

Onyeka went on to make his Danish Superliga debut for the club a few months later in the club’s 2017–18 campaign in a match against AC Horsens on 9 February 2018.

There, he also scored, and was a key part in the 2–0 win. Onyeka distinguished himself again in the next fixture, on 18 February, against the leading Superliga team from FC Copenhagen, where he scored his second league goal for the club at the right winger position as Midtjylland beat the capital side 3–1.

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