Toby Collyer

[HankMarvin]

 

Van Nistelrooy set to raid Man Utd for wonderkid with ‘freakish’ training stats as he targets Leicester loan transfer

The player has been tipped to emulate Mainoo

Alex Smith, Sports Reporter

Updated: 13:39, 6 Dec 2024

 

RUUD VAN NISTELROOY is set to raid his former club Manchester United to improve his Leicester City squad.

The Dutchman made a dream start to life at the King Power by leading the Foxes to a 3-1 win over West Ham on Tuesday night.

SunSport has learned the ex-Man Utd interim is planning to use his contacts at Old Trafford to sign starlet Toby Collyer.

Van Nistelrooy is set to make a loan bid for the 20-year-old midfielder.

The new Leicester boss believes he could be a key asset in their battle to avoid the drop.

He worked closely with Collyer during his time as assistant to Erik ten Hag.

The highly-rated youngster has produced "freakish" running stats in training that can only be bettered by Bruno Fernandes. 

United have no interest in selling Collyer, who joined the club's academy two years ago from Brighton.

But they could be open-minded to a loan move, especially to a manager who they know will give him opportunities in the first-team.

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Collyer made his senior debut in the Community Shield defeat to Manchester City in August.

He has since featured twice, including as half-time sub for Casemiro as United were beaten 3-0 by Liverpool in the Premier League.

Pundit Steve Sidwell has tipped Collyer to be a "shining star just like Kobbie Mainoo".

 

 

Edited 6 December 2024 by HankMarvin

[Tielemans63]

Sounds like he plays county cricket for Somerset 

[jonthefox]

Any relation to Toby carvery?

[JimJams]

Seems a waste of a loan spot unless the lad with a single senior appearance is good enough to start for us.

[The Doctor]

Love a good Toby Collyer this time of year, roast dinner and usually better starters as well.

[fox_up_north]

Haha. For a second there, I thought I read that RVN is going to approach a loan for an unknown Man United kid midfielder when he's clearly looking at the back line.

 

 

 

Oh.

[Filberts lovechild]

A defensive mid, is that really what we need?

[Nick]

2 minutes ago, Filberts lovechild said:

A defensive mid, is that really what we need?

I’d prefer that Wheatley lad is it? Striker sat on their bench never getting a game and he’s mustard.

[st albans fox]

I’m sure winks and skipp will be delighted to read this ……..

[honeybradger]

4 hours ago, st albans fox said:

I’m sure winks and skipp will be delighted to read this ……..

Winks is good on the ball but not good enough defensively. Skipp is ok on the ball and ok defensively but if you add it all up you dont get a PL level player. Ndidi is good defensively and bad on the ball. If this lad is both good on the ball and good defensively then he's worth picking up, a well rounded DM would do wonders for this team.

[st albans fox]

27 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

Winks is good on the ball but not good enough defensively. Skipp is ok on the ball and ok defensively but if you add it all up you dont get a PL level player. Ndidi is good defensively and bad on the ball. If this lad is both good on the ball and good defensively then he's worth picking up, a well rounded DM would do wonders for this team.

If he was that good then Amorim would be playing him instead of Casemiro 

[honeybradger]

9 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

If he was that good then Amorim would be playing him instead of Casemiro 

There's a huge gap in ability between Casemiro and Winks/Skipp/Ndidi (as of recent years), less of a gap between him and Ndidi if Ndidi rediscovers his old self. If this guy sits somewhere between Casemiro and Winks/Skipp then he's worth looking at.

[Dahnsouff]

49 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

If he was that good then Amorim would be playing him instead of Casemiro 

Are we buying the finished article then?

[Focks]

What about that little dude from Chelsea that we bought - forgotten man

[lcfc_forever]

Didn’t watch the match yesterday but Man U fans were impressed with his performance. 
 

 

Edited 13 January 2025 by lcfc_forever

[dbtcity]

9 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said:

Didn’t watch the match yesterday but Man U fans were impressed with his performance. 
 

 

Brought him on over Casemiro as well… I know he’s been pony recently but still a big statement 

[coolhandfox]

I would take him on loan with a option if we could shift Edouard back.

 

Looks a player.

[FosseSpark]

is absolutely massive

 

[volpeazzurro]

I just read Toby Carvery and thought of prawn cocktail and T bone steak followed by Black Forest gateau. 

Edited 14 January 2025 by volpeazzurro

[lcfc_forever]

Looks like this won’t happen, even if we had a spare domestic loan spot:

 

[FrankieADZ]

come on for Utd tonight, looks decent so far

[Clever Fox]

These are the type of signings we should have been maaking in the Summer.  I hope we can make this happen.