TWTD understands League One Stevenage are among the clubs interested in taking Town centre-half on loan.

Earlier in the summer, Blues boss Kieran McKenna said he anticipated Indonesia international Baggott being sent out on loan, however, following impressive displays in pre-season, not least in Friday’s 1-0 friendly victory against Bundesliga giants RB Leipzig in Austria, he says he’s considering whether to keep the 20-year-old as part of his squad.

“I think we’ll have those conversations with Elkan now that pre-season’s done because we’ve had a good spell of time with him,” he said on Friday.

“I think he’s improved over the course of the pre-season, to be honest. I think in general, the players do improve when they spend time in this group with how the boys train, with the players around them and the way that the coaching staff are working with them. He’s improved even in the five weeks or whatever to this point.

“He’s a young player, like a Cameron Humphreys, who we think has a future in the game and a future at the club and it’s about finding that next right step for them this season.

“Is that going to be staying with the group or is it going to be continuing to gain some more exposure to first-team football?

“We’ll have those conversations with Elkan next week and reach the right decision for the club but also for the player because he’s someone we care about we want to keep progressing.”

If McKenna ultimately decides to send Baggott out to gain further first team experience this season, then we understand newly-promoted Stevenage, who the centre-half faced at the Lamex Stadium 10 days ago, are among the League One clubs interested.

Last season, Baggott, who is contracted to the Blues until the summer of 2025 with the club having an option for a further season, spent the first half of last season in League Two with Gillingham and the second in League One at Cheltenham.

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blues1 added 08:41 - Aug 1 Cadiar. Yes, he was excellent against Leipzig. But the week before against stevenage, he was equally as poor. He needs regular games before he's ready to be getting into our team. You say u don't k ow of many lge1 teams who dont play hoofball. You can't gave been to many games last season then, bcse I don't recall more than a couple who do play that way. And judging by stevenage the other week, they played some good stuff against us. Don't get all those saying he should stay here and play just in cup games and be around the squad. So if we go out of both cups after 1 tie, he'd play one game next week, and one in January. What's the use of that , against a season on loan.

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Linkboy13 added 09:47 - Aug 1 Yes agree blues 1 which is not very often ha . I think Cadier is living in a bit of a dream world. If our younger players learnt more training with the first team squad none of them would go out on loan. The German side's we played in them 60 minute training games had very few players with first team experience. I would send him out on loan to a league one club with a reputation for playing good football with a call back clause. Every young player has to earn the right to play in the first team as did Downes and Wolfenden didn't do them any harm.

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PhuketPete added 02:57 - Aug 2 We can trust KMc to identify what’s best for all concerned - with Elkan. If that’s a loan fair enough but hope it’s to a decent side where he’ll play every week. If he stays here I doubt a lack of first team opportunities would be a huge problem as he’d be involved in all the training games where the quality of coaching and play will likely be higher than in most L1 clubs on match day. And if we do retain him here it’s a bonus as he doesn’t count to our squad 25 limit.

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