Loans 2024/25

[KFS]

Hmm Sammy’s really struggling up there

[moore_94]

 

[moore_94]

 

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/high-flying-leicester-city-loanee-9669857

 

High-flying Leicester City loanee earns recognition after big impact at both ends
Brandon Cover scored his second goal of the season to help Port Vale on their way to a fifth straight victory, one that leaves them four points clear at the top of the League Two table

ByJordan Blackwell
16:20, 28 OCT 2024

Brandon Cover celebrates scoring for Port Vale against AFC Wimbledon (Image: Alan Walter/REX/Shutterstock)

Leicester City loanee Brandon Cover is going from strength to strength on loan at high-flying Port Vale.

Cover netted his second goal of the season from wing-back on Saturday to open the scoring in Vale's 3-2 victory over Wimbledon. With a fifth-straight win, Darren Moore’s side are now four points clear at top of the League Two table.

Starting 10 of the 11 league matches since he joined from City on deadline day, Cover has established himself as Vale’s first-choice right-sided wing-back, and he’s making a big impression. He got off the mark with a delicate chip last month and showed off more of his qualities in scoring against Wimbledon.

 

 

 

Intercepting on the halfway line, the 21-year-old drove into space and told striker Jayden Stockley, 10 years his senior, the run he needed to make. He then slipped a pass into the box to Stockley and then continued his run for the return ball, coolly sliding his shot into the bottom corner.

For the third Vale goal, it was Cover’s disguised through the lines and into the box that allowed Rico Richards to clip in a cross for Stockley to head home. Those goal contributions and his all-around performance earned Cover a place in the League Two team of the weekend.

But, as a wing-back, his priorities are not necessarily to get involved at the top end. However, he’s shown plenty of other qualities, and now leads the division for successive tackles per 90 minutes.

With City’s Under-21s, playing as a full-back or a defensive midfielder, one of the big strengths of Cover’s game was his combativeness and, even with the step up to senior level, it seems he has managed to retain that quality. Last month, manager Moore spoke of how Cover did not give his opposing winger “a moment’s peace”.

[Pita]

It’s nice to see some of the young lads starting to make their mark while out on loan. First team in a year or two 🦊🦊
 

[Plastik Man]

On 28/10/2024 at 19:27, davieG said:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/high-flying-leicester-city-loanee-9669857

 

High-flying Leicester City loanee earns recognition after big impact at both ends
Brandon Cover scored his second goal of the season to help Port Vale on their way to a fifth straight victory, one that leaves them four points clear at the top of the League Two table

ByJordan Blackwell
16:20, 28 OCT 2024

Brandon Cover celebrates scoring for Port Vale against AFC Wimbledon (Image: Alan Walter/REX/Shutterstock)

Leicester City loanee Brandon Cover is going from strength to strength on loan at high-flying Port Vale.

Cover netted his second goal of the season from wing-back on Saturday to open the scoring in Vale's 3-2 victory over Wimbledon. With a fifth-straight win, Darren Moore’s side are now four points clear at top of the League Two table.

Starting 10 of the 11 league matches since he joined from City on deadline day, Cover has established himself as Vale’s first-choice right-sided wing-back, and he’s making a big impression. He got off the mark with a delicate chip last month and showed off more of his qualities in scoring against Wimbledon.

 

 

 

Intercepting on the halfway line, the 21-year-old drove into space and told striker Jayden Stockley, 10 years his senior, the run he needed to make. He then slipped a pass into the box to Stockley and then continued his run for the return ball, coolly sliding his shot into the bottom corner.

For the third Vale goal, it was Cover’s disguised through the lines and into the box that allowed Rico Richards to clip in a cross for Stockley to head home. Those goal contributions and his all-around performance earned Cover a place in the League Two team of the weekend.

But, as a wing-back, his priorities are not necessarily to get involved at the top end. However, he’s shown plenty of other qualities, and now leads the division for successive tackles per 90 minutes.

With City’s Under-21s, playing as a full-back or a defensive midfielder, one of the big strengths of Cover’s game was his combativeness and, even with the step up to senior level, it seems he has managed to retain that quality. Last month, manager Moore spoke of how Cover did not give his opposing winger “a moment’s peace”.

Looks promising.

 

Might we see Cover as an inverting RB in our first team in a season or 2?

[Devonfox1884]

Cannon has equalised for Stoke v Southampton.

[Aus Fox]

1 minute ago, Devonfox1884 said:

Cannon has equalised for Stoke v Southampton.

2-0 and thrown it away again… 

[moore_94]

Todays Result - Tuesday 29th October

 

Carabao Cup 4th Round:

 

Tom Cannon (7.3 + 1 goal - 60 mins) - Stoke City 2-3 Southampton

 

 

Edited 29 October 2024 by moore_94

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/transfer-decision-working-perfectly-leicester-9671509

 

Transfer decision working perfectly with Leicester City set to save themselves millions
Centre-back Ben Nelson is yet to taste victory in his six appearances for loan club Oxford, but that does not mean his spell at the Kassam Stadium is not going to plan

ByJordan Blackwell
12:03, 29 OCT 2024

Six appearances in and Ben Nelson is yet to taste victory as an Oxford United player. You would be forgiven for thinking, then, that the young Leicester City centre-back’s loan spell is not going well, but that could not be further from the truth.

For a start, Oxford have drawn five of the six games Nelson has played, including against promotion contenders Burnley and West Brom, as well as recently-relegated Luton. Nelson’s only defeat came this past weekend, to table-toppers Sunderland.

But really, as far as City are concerned, results are not the priority anyway. They would like Nelson to be on a winning side, of course, but it’s not a necessity for his development.

 

What they want is for him to be pushed, and the evidence so far suggests that is the case. Nelson had a host of Championship clubs to choose from, many with better promotion prospects than Oxford. But having selected the Kassam Stadium as his new home, Nelson was putting himself in a scenario where he would be tested and where he would be forced to learn the other side of the game.

The 20-year-old has long had a reputation for being a prospect in the mould of John Stones, a centre-back whose qualities are in possession, rather than their raw defensive ability. During his few outings with City last season, in Enzo Maresca’s possession-dominant side, those aspects of the game would have been the focus too.

 

But at Oxford, there is defending to do. As a newly-promoted club, Des Buckingham’s side were always likely to be spending a lot of time on the back foot. They have so far averaged 47 per cent possession, which ranks 17th in the division.

And so Nelson is doing a lot of work on the back foot. He’s being pushed to stay alert for 90 minutes, to keep tabs on strikers and dangermen and guard his goal. It seems he’s doing a grand job so far.

No Championship side has conceded more crosses into the box than Oxford but, for clearances per 90 minutes, Nelson ranks fourth in the division, showing he’s getting into good positions to defend his penalty area. Plus, he has a 100 per cent tackle rate against opposing dribblers, one of just two players in the division to have made at least eight attempted tackles and maintain a perfect record.

 

But it’s not that he’s solely in the team to defend. He is still able to show his qualities in stepping out of the back-line to carry the ball forward and start attacks. Oxford want him to be able to play that way.

Assistant manager Craig Short, a top-flight centre-back for Everton and Blackburn, told the Oxford Mail: “I’m encouraging him to do that, and I’ve spoken to him quite a bit about it. When you’ve got one centre forward pressing you, you can do that.

“He’s got exceptional pace as well. He glides across the ground and is probably one of the quickest players here. He’s got two good feet, and you wouldn’t think he was right-footed with some of the left-footed diagonals he was hitting.

“We’ll encourage him to do that, of course we will, and then you’ve always got someone who can fill in for him. I’m not going to stop him doing that.”

Being able to work on both sides of the game makes it the perfect loan, and especially now it looks like he’s established himself as a regular starter. Judging by the rave reviews from Oxford fans, he’s not going to be dropped any time soon.

His success in the Championship will spark comparisons with Harvey Barnes and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, both who enjoyed excellent campaigns in the second tier and, within a few months of their returns, had worked their way into becoming regulars in the City starting line-up. Nelson could do the same.

Of all of their loanees, they’re keeping the closest eye on Nelson and they have the capability to recall him in January. They have four senior centre-backs at the club in Wout Faes, Caleb Okoli, Conor Coady and Jannik Vestergaard, and so they’re not short of options at the back at the moment. But should the situation change, whether next summer or sooner, signs point towards Nelson being the man they turn to, rather than the transfer market, in turn saving the club millions.

[coolhandfox]

I would be tempted to recall Nelson in January as we have the option, we are struggling it that area so why not give him a try.  

[moore_94]

1 hour ago, coolhandfox said:

I would be tempted to recall Nelson in January as we have the option, we are struggling it that area so why not give him a try.  

I imagine we would need to see either of Coady or Vestergaard leave first, even then I am not sure if Cooper would guarantee him the game time ahead of the 3rd choice

[JimJams]

Nah, leave Nelson there.  Unless we ship a load out, which we inevitably won't.  I think Nelson will be in a position to challenge for a place in our 11 next season regardless of division rather than be cover.  No point in him coming back to be utilised in the same way Vesty and Coady are, and you know he'll be behind both in the pecking order.

 

Speaking of Cover; he's is doing very well but what's the next logical step?  If Port Vale get promoted have him play for them in League 1? Cos that doesn't seem worth it from our POV. So a champ loan (hopefully we're not in a position to offer champ football ourselves)?

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, JimJams said:

Nah, leave Nelson there.  Unless we ship a load out, which we inevitably won't.  I think Nelson will be in a position to challenge for a place in our 11 next season regardless of division rather than be cover.  No point in him coming back to be utilised in the same way Vesty and Coady are, and you know he'll be behind both in the pecking order.

 

Speaking of Cover; he's is doing very well but what's the next logical step?  If Port Vale get promoted have him play for them in League 1? Cos that doesn't seem worth it from our POV. So a champ loan (hopefully we're not in a position to offer champ football ourselves)?

Re Cover, if we go down, just get him in the side and let him show what he can do.

 

Put it this way, if we go down, and were looking at young prospects from the EFL, a player who has been a star in a team that has been promoted to League 1 would surely be on our radar if owned by the other club so given he is ours already, use him! If we stay up, I suppose see whether PV are in league 1 and whether it is beneficial for him to stay there or if there are Championship options.

[Jimmy]

only reason to recall Nelson in January is if we only have 2 CBs fit otherwise its best long term for him to stay there

[Jimmy]

@JimJams asked a Stoke fan his thoughts on Cannon on another forum, here was the reply

 

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Disappointing to be honest. He's not being helped by our very poor, badly assembled squad that's not creating many chances for him or play to his strengths. His one great game for us when he scored 4 against Portsmouth was the one time he was able to play with Sam Gallagher, and intelligent target man who can hold the ball up and create space for him. He clearly needs a partner with him to get the best out of him but we knew Gallagher was injury prone when he signed and so far it's proved that way. But even with that taken into account, I expected a bit more from his all around play and for him to be able to play the lone striker role better considering that's the dominant way of playing for strikers these days.

It wouldn't massively surprise me if you recall him and loan him back out somewhere else in January because I doubt he's hitting the performance targets you're expecting of him and you'll probably correctly think that he'll do better somewhere else in a less shit team.

 

[coolhandfox]

8 hours ago, moore_94 said:

I imagine we would need to see either of Coady or Vestergaard leave first, even then I am not sure if Cooper would guarantee him the game time ahead of the 3rd choice

Don't think we will have to worry about Cooper after Christmas.

 

 

[moore_94]

Tom Cannon has just scored a penalty that he won for Stoke City vs Derby County

 

Ben Nelson is currently playing for Oxford United vs Swansea City

Harry Souttar is currently playing for Sheff Utd vs Blackburn Rovers

 

Edited 2 November 2024 by moore_94

[Ric Flair]

On 30/10/2024 at 19:58, Jimmy said:

@JimJams asked a Stoke fan his thoughts on Cannon on another forum, here was the reply

 

 

Very interesting. His strong spell at Preston was in a front two and like many of our strikers we sign (Daka, Iheanacho etc) they all are more suited to 2 up top.

[JimJams]

Looking at the pen he won, I'm not convinced the keeper got him.  From one angle it looks blatant, from another you can't see contact.  Just wonder if the keepers hand catches his foot cos it's obscured on the replay from the stand.

 

Edit: Not that I'm arsed he's won one either way.

Edited 2 November 2024 by JimJams

[moore_94]

1 minute ago, JimJams said:

Looking at the pen he won, I'm not convinced the keeper got him.  From one angle it looks blatant, from another you can't see contact.  Just wonder if the keepers hand catches his foot cos it's obscured on the replay from the stand.

 

Edit: Not that I'm arsed he's won one either way.

From what most Stoke fans were saying on their forum apparently he did catch him on the foot

 

Probably still one of those where he has over-exaggerated it a bit but I guess he did spend a year training with Vardy 

[JimJams]

3 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

From what most Stoke fans were saying on their forum apparently he did catch him on the foot

 

Probably still one of those where he has over-exaggerated it a bit but I guess he did spend a year training with Vardy 

Just seen the Sky highlight, he does catch him. grabs round his ankle.

 

[Lambert09]

really good pen from him. His finishing is incredibly good. 

 

 

[moore_94]

Silko Thomas is on the bench for Wigan Athletic vs Carlisle

 

Brandon Cover is starting for Port Vale vs Barnsley

 

Chris Popov is on the bench for Barrow vs Doncaster

[Lambert09]

 😂 Frank Sinclair would be proud 

Edited 2 November 2024 by Lambert09