Olamide Shodipo

Olamide Oluwatimilehin Babatunde Oluwaka Shodipo (born 5 July 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a winger for EFL League One club Sheffield Wednesday, on loan from EFL Championship club Queens Park Rangers.

He made his first-team debut for QPR in August 2016, and has been capped by the Republic of Ireland at under-19 and under-21 levels. He joined Port Vale on loan in January 2017, and joined Colchester United on loan in January 2018. He made 13 appearances for QPR during the 2019–20 season, though spent the following season on loan at Oxford United and was loaned out to Sheffield Wednesday for the 2021–22 campaign.

Club Career

Queens Park Rangers

Shodipo was born in Leixlip, a town near Dublin, Ireland, before moving to London at the age of two. He signed a two-year contract extension with Queens Park Rangers in April 2016. He made his senior debut in the opening game of the 2016–17 EFL Championship season on 7 August 2016, in a 3–0 win over Leeds United at Loftus Road; he was named in the starting lineup, and was later substituted in the 68th minute for Abdenasser El Khayati. Manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink later said that Shodipo had "that rawness. that streetness and that fight" and said "we will definitely be putting him in and around the team regularly". On 30 November, Shodipo signed a new two-and-a-half-year contract with QPR, tying him to the club until 2019. However new manager Ian Holloway left him out of the team in favour of new signing Kazenga LuaLua, explaining his decision by saying "every time I've put him on, unfortunately the team has let a goal in"; Holloway said "he would benefit massively from a loan spell", which he hoped would improve the defensive and tactical side of his game.

On 30 January 2017, Shodipo signed with EFL League One side Port Vale on loan until the end of the 2016–17 season. He made six appearances for the "Valiants" before being ruled out for the rest of the season after picking up a tendinitis injury