Fulham are one of ten Championship clubs keen to take Manchester City midfielder Tommy Doyle on loan this season, according to reports this afternoon.
The Whites join the likes of Sheffield United, West Brom, Bournemouth, Swansea City, Middlesbrough, QPR, Coventry City, Cardiff and Blackburn Rovers in a long line of suitors for the creative midfielder, who starred as City’s under 23s claimed the Premier League 2 title last season. The teenager has made seven senior appearances for Pep Guardiola’s side after being handed his debut in a League Cup win over Southampton in 2019.
Doyle made his Premier League bow in July 2020 when he replaced Riyad Mahrez in a 5-0 victory over Newcastle. The 19 year-old is highly rated by the City coaching staff and extended his contract until the summer of 2025 last year. The club have yet to decide whether to loan Doyle out to continue his development – and a call may not be made until early August.
Fulham are known to be keen to strengthen their midfield options following their relegation from the Premier League and the end of Mario Lemina’s loan from Southampton.
Not a good idea , we have plenty of midfield players , if buying a good youngster yes, but not a loan we can’t buy. Play are own . We had to in premiership to try and stay up and most of them had option to buy, please not in championship unless it’s a striker who will get us goals
Agree with Daniel. I am totally fed up with loan deals that in affect stop the FFC academy boys stepping up to the 1st Team. If the academy boys aren’t good enough to step up then what are we doing wrong at the academy. I think we have a lot of talent at our academy, we just need to start trusting them…. we need to be the English Dortmund.
It seems that we don’t give our boys a chance and then they leave and go somewhere else, which is very frustrating. If we start getting the young talent into the 1st team then more good young talent we want to come to Fulham….
We need creativity in midfield particularly as TC is a question Mark re fitness. To buy we will have to sell. Selling could also weaken us if we go up again. Loans only cease to make sense when we have too many of them
I agree we must not go down the loan route again especially if there is no chance of buying at the end of the loan. Give the youngsters a chance
I concur a minimum of loan deals. why this obsession with midfield players it is the last position we need strengthening
The thing with loan players is that the parent club tend to pay some if not all the player’s wages as long as the player is given game time there’s also the fact that city have an habit of increasing the loan period or selling the player