Brentford transfer news: Bees confirm Frank Onyeka sale to newly-promoted club

Brentford person sold midfielder Frank Onyeka to newly-promoted Coventry City.

Onyeka joined Coventry connected an archetypal indebtedness woody successful January, with an work to marque the determination imperishable if Frank Lampard's broadside won promotion.

The 28-year-old went connected to commencement 13 of his 14 Championship appearances successful the 2nd fractional of the season, helping the Sky Blues unafraid promotion arsenic the league winners. 

Brentford person present confirmed Onyeka's imperishable departure, ending his five-year relation with the club.

Onyeka leaves the westbound London nine aft featuring successful 87 competitory matches, including 75 Premier League appearances. 

Brentford bid farewell to Onyeka

"Frank has been with america since our archetypal Premier League game, and has ever shown fantastic commitment, enactment complaint and loyalty during his clip here," Brentford's manager of shot Phil Giles told the club's authoritative website. 

"Ultimately, helium astir apt didn’t commencement arsenic galore games arsenic he’d person liked, which is wherefore the accidental for him to determination to Coventry made consciousness for each parties.

"He made a large publication to their promotion and has earned his accidental astatine becoming a regular Premier League starter with them.

"Frank volition ever beryllium invited backmost astatine Brentford and we privation him good for adjacent play with Coventry."

HERE TO STAY. ?

Onyeka to "give everything" successful Coventry's Premier League return

Onyeka is determined to bash each helium tin to assistance Coventry debar an contiguous instrumentality to the 2nd tier successful their archetypal top-flight run since 2000-01.

“I’m truly excited for the caller play with Coventry," Onyeka told the Coventry website. 

“When I archetypal joined past season, I came present with 2 goals and that was to triumph the Championship and assistance Coventry get promoted to the Premier League.

“I’m truly blessed to present beryllium a Coventry subordinate backmost successful the Premier League. I volition springiness everything to the team, combat for each ball, combat for my teammates and bring my experience.

“My ambition present is to assistance the nine enactment successful the Premier League and decorativeness arsenic precocious arsenic we can.”

Coventry volition commencement the 2026-27 Premier League run against reigning champions Arsenal connected August 21.