October Turns Down Loan Move
Tuesday, 3rd Sep 2013 06:00

Left-back David October turned down a loan move to a non-league side as he’d prefer to go to a Football League club, manager Mick McCarthy has revealed.

“I spoke to Rocco the other day, we had an enquiry about him, but not from a league club," the Blues boss said.

“Fair play to him, he wants to play in the U21s and see if he can get a league club, which I fully expect he could.”

October, 18, signed a one-year contract after completing the second year of his academy scholarship at the end of last season.

Strikers Jack Marriott and Tom Winter and midfielders Mark Timlin and Jonny Leddy signed pro terms at the same time as October and McCarthy is keen to get players at their stage of development out on loan if possible, but so far without receiving any interest: “Nobody else, if somebody else came in I’d talk to them.”

Football League clubs are able to sign players on short-term loans of up to three months from next week.

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bontcho added 07:35 - Sep 3 Hmmmm would be good for him to get regular men's football. The Skrill Prem is a good standard, equal to League 2 I'd say.
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EatonBlue added 08:55 - Sep 3 Is there an October loan window?
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positivity added 09:39 - Sep 3

I agree that the top of the non-league is worth doing, but not sure if leiston, chelmsford etc is that useful if the player has ambitions to get into the 1st team.
difficult to think of a player who's gone out on loan, then pushed on into the 1st team; in the last 2 yearsmurray, wight, ainsley, carson, martin, drury, griffiths, peters, o'connor all went backwards. Last player I can remember who benefited was smith, but how long ago was that?

Guthrum added 10:16 - Sep 3 @positivity - Martin and Drury both won their places in the first team following loan spells! It was also going out on loan which launched Rhodes on his path to success, albeit not at Town. Suspect this is adroit talking up by McCarthy, trying to get one of his promising youngsters out acquiring competitive match experience at the highest possible level.
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