{"id":32399,"date":"2025-10-10T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/?p=32399"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:43:07","slug":"kian-pennant-joins-gateshead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/kian-pennant-joins-gateshead\/","title":{"rendered":"Kian Pennant joins Gateshead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Gateshead FC is delighted to confirm the signing of Leicester City forward Kian Pennant on an initial one-month loan, subject to league &amp; FA approval.<\/h1>\n<p>The 21-year-old joins The Heed until Sunday, November 23 in his second season as a professional, having signed a contract with Leicester City in the summer of 2024 after originally joining the club&#8217;s academy in its Foundation phase at U9 level.<\/p>\n<p>Pennant is a former team-mate of Ethan Fitzhugh&#8217;s, with the pair involved in 33 matches together with The Foxes at U18 and U21 level from 2019 to 2023, and the former has now racked up over 100 games with Leicester City&#8217;s academy sides.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Gateshead, Kian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gateshead FC is delighted to confirm the signing of Leicester City forward Kian Pennant on an initial <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/kian-pennant-joins-gateshead\/\" class=\"readmore\"> Read More  &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":32405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news-media","category-club-news","category-first-team"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kian Pennant joins Gateshead - Gateshead FC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/kian-pennant-joins-gateshead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kian Pennant joins Gateshead - Gateshead FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gateshead FC is delighted to confirm the signing of Leicester City forward Kian Pennant on an initial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/kian-pennant-joins-gateshead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gateshead FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gatesheadfc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-10T14:00:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-10T13:43:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pennant-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1706\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jack McGraghan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Jmcgraghan6\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@GatesheadFC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jack McGraghan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/kian-pennant-joins-gateshead\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/kian-pennant-joins-gateshead\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jack McGraghan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a8d634ec4d2039bb9714c1f16cdfcbff\"},\"headline\":\"Kian Pennant joins Gateshead\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-10T14:00:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-10T13:43:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/kian-pennant-joins-gateshead\/\"},\"wordCount\":111,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/kian-pennant-joins-gateshead\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/gateshead-fc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pennant-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"All News &amp; 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