Town Linked With Renewed Rushworth Interest
Sunday, 12th Apr 2026 11:40

Town are being linked with renewed interest in keeper Carl Rushworth, who has spent this season on loan with Championship leaders Coventry from Brighton & Hove Albion.

The Blues were keen on the 24-year-old in the summer of 2024 ahead of their Premier League campaign but ultimately Town recruited Aro Muric from Burnley and Rushworth joined Hull City on loan for the campaign.

Now, according to journalist Alan Nixon, the Blues are eyeing the Halifax-born glovesman again ahead of this summer regardless of whether they return to the top flight on either a permanent or loan basis.

Coventry, barring a miracle destined for promotion as champions, are unsurprisingly also keen, Rushworth having been one of their standout performers this season, keeping 16 clean sheets in 42 matches.

Prior to his stint with Hull, where he made only three appearances, Rushworth had spent a season on loan at Swansea City and the previous campaign at Lincoln City, having had earlier spells with Worthing and Walsall, having been with Huddersfield and Halifax as a schoolboy before joining Brighton.

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CaptainAhab added 11:44 - Apr 12 Surely a non-starter if Coventry want him?
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chorltonskylineblue added 11:49 - Apr 12 Pierce Charles is worth a look. Probably not ready to step up to the Prem at only 20, but would be a great addition that could be loaned to a decent Championship club to increase his experience.
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Len_Brennan added 11:56 - Apr 12

Rushworth has the footballing attributes that McKenna wants his keeper to have, for his style of play, which starts at the back; not to mention the fact that he is also a great shot stopper.
The fact that we were in for him previously might work in our favour, plus the likelihood of us staying up is significantly greater than Coventry's chances, thanks to our recent experience & greater financial clout.

Paulc added 12:07 - Apr 12 I for one wouldn’t be disappointed if we started next season with Walton. Can’t believe we’re having ‘linked with’ posts already, please stop it.
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Bluearmy_81 added 12:10 - Apr 12 CW is a really good keeper, he’s underrated. I’d be happy with him in goal next season in the event we go up
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ChrisFelix added 12:19 - Apr 12 I have always rated Walton, his clean sheet record is excellent. It was only injury 2 years ago which kept him out of the promotion winning side He is now very part of the best defence in the Championship
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Razor added 12:28 - Apr 12 Think Walton is perfectly ok apart from his insane mucking about at goalkicks has made some brilliant saves that have kept us in many games
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Bazza8564 added 12:36 - Apr 12 Interesting debate this one, no doubt CW has had an outstanding spell since Palmer got injured, but is he PL quality? His save ratio at 51% last season was 23% behind Muric, so it would not surprise me in the least if we add a first choice keeper in the summer. My preference would be someone like Onana but his wages would rule that out.....
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Linkboy13 added 12:46 - Apr 12 Can't believe this unless McKenna thinks Walton can't cut it in the Premier league.
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BeattiesBackPocket added 12:49 - Apr 12 IF we were going to buy a new keeper he would definitely be a great signing for us. Personally he is the reason they’ve not conceded more and run away with the league a little bit. The other part of me is thinking that maybe we need more premier league know how next season. That includes the middle of the park as well for me.
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bradforblues added 13:11 - Apr 12 I don't think we need him. Walton has been superb and Palmer has PL experience from last season and did well. We need CM x2, another CB (right footed), right winger and two strikers to start off with
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ringwoodblue added 13:15 - Apr 12 Let’s see what league we’re in next season first before talking about transfer targets.
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VitalSigns added 13:19 - Apr 12 Didn’t we try to sign him on a permanent deal in our promotion year but Brighton would only loan him so we moved on to Muric ? If we get promoted , as seems likely, we need a GK that is good with his feet. The Premier League is very unforgiving when you give the ball away cheaply in your own third.
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Saxonblue74 added 13:20 - Apr 12 We have 2 premier league goalkeepers already
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JeremiahBrown added 13:23 - Apr 12 To replace Muric maybe?
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JeremiahBrown added 13:31 - Apr 12 Or maybe Button will join the coaching team?
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UEFAblue added 13:33 - Apr 12 If we go up it’s not just a new GK we need. How many of yesterday’s team are really good enough for the Premiership?
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jas0999 added 13:46 - Apr 12 Far too early to be linked with players.
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jas0999 added 13:46 - Apr 12 Far too early to be linked with players.
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Magic8 added 15:35 - Apr 12 We have 6 loan players ..plenty of room for PL class signings.IF we get there...
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tractorboybig added 17:19 - Apr 12 Surely there are 10 other positions to change on promotion before keepers
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coolhand added 17:49 - Apr 12 Only 10 points required for promotion, so have to start looking. Where do we get our 10 points from?
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shortmarine1969 added 19:20 - Apr 12 Forward line would be most pressing area..as none are good enough, Hirst as back up at best sorry to say!.
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superblues9 added 19:27 - Apr 12 Will be stupid to waste money on a goalkeeper said this before they signed muric other year and was right and will be again palmer and walton good enough and one wouod prob leave if we signed another goalkeeper so why bother
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armchaircritic59 added 19:31 - Apr 12 I suspect one of many positions up for review during the summer, particularly if we're back in the PL. Whatever the league status, it's going to be a very interesting close season. For now, I'm concentrating on the last 6 matches of this one.
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