Although the New York Red Bulls have said otherwise, the most obvious explanation for Anatole Abang's abrupt loan to Danish club Hobro IK is that RBNY is hoping to offload the forward. He was barely getting any playing time for either the first team or reserves by the time he left New York, and that was becoming an increasingly conspicuous waste of talent since Abang had started (and continues) to get call-ups to the Cameroon Men's National Team.
The terms of the 20-year-old's loan don't seem to help RBNY's on-field ambitions in any obvious way: he's in Denmark until next summer, half-way through the next MLS season.