St Mirren Football Club is delighted to announce the loan signing of Kion Etete until the end of the season subject to international clearance.
The forward joins Saints from English League One league leaders Cardiff City for the remainder of the 2025/26 campaign.
The 24-year-old began his career at Notts County before a successful trial saw him win a move to Tottenham Hotspur in 2019. During his time with Spurs, Kion would go on loan to Northampton Town and Cheltenham Town – where he would play alongside Dan Nlundulu - before a permanent switch to Cardiff in August 2022.
Kion has made 63 appearances for the Bluebirds, scoring nine goals as well as spending time on loan at Bolton Wanderers and Rotherham United over the past year. He becomes our third signing of the January window.
Speaking after completing his loan, Kion said: "I want to do well, I want to score goals and I want to see how far up the table we can go.
"I trained today. It’s a great bunch of lads and I can't wait to meet the rest of them.
"I think a lot of the stuff that the gaffer said to me I liked the sound of. I spoke to David Turnbull a little, asked him about the gaffer and he had good things to say.
I just want to bring quality, I want to bring goals, I want to bring points at the end of the day. It's about winning."
Manager Stephen Robinson added: "Kion brings another option up front.
"He got a very good move to Cardiff after his loan spell at Northampton and we've watched him from a distance for a while. He gives competition up front with Mika, a big target man, can get in behind as well and scores goals as well. It’s another option that we perhaps haven't had in the last few weeks.
"I think you've seen with Jake [Young] coming on and the impact he made, it's something different as well. It refreshes everybody and, as I say, gives us options when people aren't playing on top of their game, that we can go and change things a little bit more than we have been able to."
