Loïc Mbe Soh Joins Sparta Prague for €3m

Loïc Mbe Soh is on the move again. The former Nottingham Forest and Paris Saint-Germain defender is leaving Sint-Truiden after just a few months to join Czech champions Sparta Prague in a deal worth around €3m.

It’s a swift exit, but not a surprising one.

Signed in January as a replacement for Rein Van Helden, who left for Antwerp, Mbe Soh quickly became a key figure in Sint-Truiden’s back line. He made 14 league appearances in the second half of last season, helping the club clinch European football for the first time in their history. This campaign had barely begun and he was already on the teamsheet twice before Sparta stepped in.

For a player whose career once seemed to be drifting, this is a significant step.

Mbe Soh came through the famed PSG academy and broke into the first team, making three senior appearances before heading to England in 2020 to join Nottingham Forest. The move was supposed to launch him in one of Europe’s most watched leagues. It never quite caught fire.

Across four seasons with Forest, he played only 13 times and scored once. Game time was so limited that the club sent him out on loan twice, first to Guingamp in France and then to Almere City in the Netherlands, in search of rhythm and responsibility.

His reset came in Belgium. In 2024, Mbe Soh left Forest on a free transfer and joined Beerschot in the Pro League. There, he finally played regularly, racking up 52 appearances. The first full season ended in disappointment with relegation from the top flight, but the 25-year-old stayed and helped lead a promotion push the following year.

That form earned him his mid-season switch to Sint-Truiden, where his impact was immediate and measurable: a stabilised defence, a European ticket, and renewed attention from clubs with bigger ambitions.

Now Sparta Prague, a club with regular European group-stage aspirations and a demanding domestic standard, are betting €3m that his upward curve continues.

From PSG prospect to Forest frustration, from relegation battles with Beerschot to a European stage with Sint-Truiden and now Sparta, Mbe Soh’s path has been anything but straight. At 25, though, he walks into Prague not as a project, but as a defender with scars, experience, and momentum.

This move will show whether that hard-earned journey turns him into a mainstay at the heart of a title-chasing defence, or sends him back into the shuffle of European journeymen.