Loans 2025/26

[LCFCJohn]

2 minutes ago, Kinowe Soorie said:

Does anyone know if Cartwright is a Leicester lad?

If he’s really good he will be. If he ends up now being good, it’s likely he was born in Nottingham and his dog supports Forest!

[TamuffFox]

54 minutes ago, Kinowe Soorie said:

Does anyone know if Cartwright is a Leicester lad?

Yes he is. Went school at Brockington, Enderby.

[Wasyls Pec Deck]

10 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

I wouldn’t consider that a good thing, if marti so much as has a Cambodian take away, he will end up as our boss. After 3 weeks of trying to woo potter of course 

Haha our board are stupid, but I don’t think they are that stupid (actually maybe they are). A lot of people think they backtracked on appointing him in the past because of supporter unrest, and that’s happened in the past (Colin willy puller).

[Ric Flair]

3 hours ago, TamuffFox said:

Yes he is. Went school at Brockington, Enderby.

I remember Brockington beating us 9-0 in a game once and Rich Gundelach scored all 9. Unreal little player who was one Villa's books at the time.

[Shane]

cartwright has been with the club since the u9s, great to see one of our own performing so well

[BrummieFOX]

5 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I remember Brockington beating us 9-0 in a game once and Rich Gundelach scored all 9. Unreal little player who was one Villa's books at the time.

When I was at school our team faced Luke Moore's (ex-Villa) school. I don't think he was meant to play so was on the bench. It was 0-0, dreafdul game, he came on in the last minute and scored a hatrick. Lost 3-0 

[mazarron fox]

Just out of interest, if Cartwright has been playing so well for Falkirk, why was he on the bench?

[bairn1876]

Afternoon

 

Falkirk fan here. Cartwright has been a great addition to our side. A solid midfielder, tough in the tackle who can take the ball in tight situations and move it on no problem.  He's had 1 mistake away at Hearts last weekend where he got robbed of the ball but the pass he received was arguably a bit risky. That was a bad day overall though so no big deal. 

 

It was explained he was on the bench yesterday as we attempted to get more pace with the 3 playing behind the striker to get at a shaky Rangers defence. No need to worry about him not playing from the start yesterday he's more than playing his part and getting great experience having already played at Celtic Park, Aberdeen and Hearts. 

 

If he keeps at it you could have a useful player coming back down the road for next season. 

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/how-leicester-city-played-role-10552164

 

The latest Leicester City loan round-up as Henry Cartwright scores for Falkirk, three loanees play in the same game, and Bilal El Khannouss nets again for Stuttgart

Sport
Jordan Blackwell
11:10, 06 Oct 2025

Young Leicester City midfielder Henry Cartwright scored the first senior goal of his career in spectacular fashion – and it prompted the sacking of Russell Martin at Rangers.

Cartwright came off the bench to strike for loan club Falkirk on Sunday, the 20-year-old shrugging off Mohamed Diomande before hitting from 25 yards, his shot taking a nick off John Souttar before flying into the net.

The goal levelled the game up at 1-1 and that’s how it finished, leading to more anger from Rangers fans dissatisfied with Martin’s management.

Supporters blocked in the Rangers team bus while Martin was smuggled out of a back exit and given a police escort away from Falkirk’s stadium.

 

Later on Sunday evening, Martin was sacked. Heavily linked to City before taking the Rangers job, Martin has had a torrid time at Ibrox, winning just three of 15 matches across the Premiership and Europe.

Talking through his goal, Cartwright told Sky Sports: “I saw it break down and thought it was my chance to win the ball. I took the ball forward, saw Ethan (Williams) on the right and thought, ‘No, I’ll leave him and shoot this time.’ Thankfully it’s gone top bins.

 

“Rangers are a massive club but not in the best run of form at the minute and I feel like we took advantage of that. We’ve done well to get a point today.”

Elsewhere, three City players featured in the same game in League Two as high-flying Swindon edged struggling Newport 1-0.

Centre-back Tom Wilson-Brown came on for the final few minutes for Swindon, and made an important tackle in the box in added time to preserve the clean sheet and three points.

Midfielder Sammy Braybrooke continues to get excellent reviews from Newport fans, but he and striker Nathan Opoku are still waiting for their first taste of victory with the Exiles.

Newport have now lost 10 of their last 11 games in all competitions and sit bottom of League Two.

Full-back Jayden Joseph came on as a first-half substitute for Tranmere as they recovered from 3-1 down to claim a point at Bromley.

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Overseas, Bilal El Khannouss has taken just six games with Stuttgart to match his City goal tally. The Moroccan scored his third goal for the Bundesliga side, who have an obligation to buy at the end of the loan deal, as they beat Heidenheim 1-0.

In non-league, goalkeeper Jake Donohue’s month-long loan to Quorn was only announced on Saturday morning, but he was thrown straight into the action, making his senior debut in the FA Trophy against Corby.

After a 2-2 draw, the match went to penalties, with Donohue unable to keep out any of the Corby spot-kicks, the Northamptonshire side progressing after a 5-3 shoot-out win.

[JimJams]

Looks like he's bulked up a bit too.

[Noahfence]

Didn’t realise he was still only 20. For some reason I thought he was one of youth players we keep around till they’re nearly 23 before loaning out. 

[Greg2607]

7 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

I remember Brockington beating us 9-0 in a game once and Rich Gundelach scored all 9. Unreal little player who was one Villa's books at the time.

Our school team was a bit like this, we had the England U15 GK, 3 of us in the LCFC Academy and the rest playing for the county. It was an unreal year for sport.

 

This was before you were prevented playing for the school team if you were in academy.  We also had McDonalds gold cards as they sponsored the FA Grass roots stuff ....  Basically, as much free McDonald's as you like.....

 

Went against the modern ethos of nutrition for athletes 🤣🤣🤣

 

Might be why I'm now 18 stone to be fair. 🤣

 

 

[BKLFox]

His contracts up June 2026, is he on a years loan & walking away or recall in January to sell or hopefully a ✍️ 📑?

 

We also need a loans manager and quickly if we want to show these lads they are still thought of.

 

 

Edited 6 October 2025 by BKLFox

[LCFCJohn]

5 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

His contracts up June 2026, is he on a years loan & walking away or recall in January to sell or hopefully a ✍️ 📑?

 

We also need a loans manager and quickly if we want to show these lads they are still thought of.

 

 

According to transfer market, he is both on loan at Falkirk and contract here expires 30/06/25.

 

You’d imagine if both parties wanted to extend if would have happened.

 

He’d be a number of years from getting a look in with us (if at all), so he might find a move to the EFL somewhere more appealing.

[BKLFox]

2 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

According to transfer market, he is both on loan at Falkirk and contract here expires 30/06/25.

 

You’d imagine if both parties wanted to extend if would have happened.

 

He’d be a number of years from getting a look in with us (if at all), so he might find a move to the EFL somewhere more appealing.

Chances are Winks leaves next season even if we offered a contract and none of us want Soumare or Skipp & hopefully we can move those on, so we will need the likes of Cartwright, Braybrooke to go with the hopefully purchase of JJ & a 10 as we are not about to start dropping 15-20m each on 2 or 3 new midfielders regardless of division we’re in.

 

[JimJams]

30 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

According to transfer market, he is both on loan at Falkirk and contract here expires 30/06/25.

 

You’d imagine if both parties wanted to extend if would have happened.

It won't be extended cos that contract is with the u21 squad. 

He'll transfer to the senior team or part ways. But given he'll have a market value I'd expect we give him a contract even if it means loaning him again.

[LCFCJohn]

33 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

Chances are Winks leaves next season even if we offered a contract and none of us want Soumare or Skipp & hopefully we can move those on, so we will need the likes of Cartwright, Braybrooke to go with the hopefully purchase of JJ & a 10 as we are not about to start dropping 15-20m each on 2 or 3 new midfielders regardless of division we’re in.

 

Up to the player as well though.

 

I didn’t realise his contract ended in 2026 until you said. But often, you see players go on loan with an announcement of a contract extension at the parent club. It makes me wonder why that hasn’t happened with Cartwright.

 

Did the club not deem him good enough? Had the player indicated he isn’t keen? If so, it would make sense to loan him than keep him in the u21’s from a maximising compensation from tribunal point of view.

[LCFCJohn]

10 minutes ago, JimJams said:

It won't be extended cos that contract is with the u21 squad. 

He'll transfer to the senior team or part ways. But given he'll have a market value I'd expect we give him a contract even if it means loaning him again.

How does this work? Surely if he has no contract, he can walk in the summer if he wants? You make it sounds like he hasn’t a choice in the matter.

[moore_94]

10 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Up to the player as well though.

 

I didn’t realise his contract ended in 2026 until you said. But often, you see players go on loan with an announcement of a contract extension at the parent club. It makes me wonder why that hasn’t happened with Cartwright.

 

Did the club not deem him good enough? Had the player indicated he isn’t keen? If so, it would make sense to loan him than keep him in the u21’s from a maximising compensation from tribunal point of view.

He did sign a new contract in the summer, it was announced when all the other youth players new contracts were announced

 

So not sure if 2026 is actually correct

 

https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/henry-cartwright-leicester-city-u21s-lcfc-under-21-falkirk-loan

[CloudFox]

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

He did sign a new contract in the summer, it was announced when all the other youth players new contracts were announced

 

So not sure if 2026 is actually correct

 

https://www.lcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/henry-cartwright-leicester-city-u21s-lcfc-under-21-falkirk-loan

It states as such in that article too. He "signed a new contract with us this summer". We just don't know how long it is. I would guess longer term if he has been loaned out.

[davieG]

https://sportwitness.co.uk/last-season-i-overthought-things-player-compared-to-arjen-robben-after-leicester-city-exit/

 

“Last season I overthought things” – Player compared to Arjen Robben after Leicester City exit
By Sean Lunt - 7th October 2025
 

Observers have compared Bilal El Khannouss to Arjen Robben, as he gets off to a flying start away from Leicester City.

Rundschau für den Schwäbischen Wald do the comparing today, in an interview with the Leicester City loanee, who’s currently at Stuttgart.

The 21-year-old joined the German side on loan at the end of the window after being linked with a move away from Leicester City throughout the summer. The deal includes an obligation for them to buy under certain conditions.

He’s made a positive start to life in the Bundesliga, with two goals in four games to date. El Khannouss has also got one goal in two games in the Europa League.

This is where the comparison to Robben comes in. The newspaper explains the Dutch legend made a speciality of cutting in from the wing and scoring, with few unable to stop him when he did it.

The Leicester City loanee is doing something similar, with his three goals coming from a similar movement. He’s on his way to establishing the move as his own ‘personal trademark’.

Scoring hasn’t been on the 21-year-old’s strengths in recent years. He managed just three in 37 competitive games last season for Leicester City. That appears to have changed, and he admits he sometimes overthought things last season.

“I follow my instincts, last season I overthought things,” he said.

It’s all good news for his new club so far. Although manager Sebastien Hoeneß still wants to make him more of a complete player.

“The balance between risk and clarity isn’t always right yet, there are one or two too many ball losses. We’ll work on that with him,” he added.

[Noahfence]

Watching Cardiff v Newport in the EFL trophy. (Because why not  )
 

Braybrooke is by far their best player. 
 

Just won the ball in the middle of the pitch, played a class through ball for Opoku who was one v one but bit it straight at the keeper. 

[Noahfence]

Braybrooke played the full 90 and Opoku was subbed in the 83rd minute. Beat Cardiff 1-0 away. 
 
Out of his 7 games for Newport he’s played the full 90 in 6 of them. The other game he was subbed off in the 86th minute.

 

Opoku runs the channels well and can hold the ball up, linked up the play up nicely tonight I thought. Really should’ve scored. 
 

Jayden Joseph played 75 minutes against Barrow. Won 2-1.

Edited 7 October 2025 by Noahfence

[Noahfence]

Braybrooke vs Cardiff 

 

Touches 52

Key passes 4

Accurate passes 28/31

Accurate passes in final third 10/13 

Ground duels won 2/3 

Tackles won 1/2 

Interceptions 4

Clearances 4

Edited 7 October 2025 by Noahfence

[deep blue]

On 06/10/2025 at 12:27, bairn1876 said:

Afternoon

 

Falkirk fan here. Cartwright has been a great addition to our side. A solid midfielder, tough in the tackle who can take the ball in tight situations and move it on no problem.  He's had 1 mistake away at Hearts last weekend where he got robbed of the ball but the pass he received was arguably a bit risky. That was a bad day overall though so no big deal. 

 

It was explained he was on the bench yesterday as we attempted to get more pace with the 3 playing behind the striker to get at a shaky Rangers defence. No need to worry about him not playing from the start yesterday he's more than playing his part and getting great experience having already played at Celtic Park, Aberdeen and Hearts. 

 

If he keeps at it you could have a useful player coming back down the road for next season. 

Thanks for that input. Very encouraging. All the best for the season.