{"id":323701,"date":"2025-08-06T23:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323701\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:09:12","slug":"beat-off-big-clubs-boss-delights-at-loaning-leeds-united-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323701\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Off Big Clubs &#8211; Boss Delights At Loaning Leeds United Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> George Wood\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-quote\" style=\"display: block; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin: 30px 0px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Doncaster Rovers boss Grant McCann has expressed his delight at having beaten off competition from big <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/league-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">League One<\/a> clubs to secure the signing of Charlie Crew from <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The newly-promoted League One club announced on Tuesday that they had managed to bring the 19-year-old back from Leeds on a season-long loan deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crew spent the second half of last season on loan at the Eco-Power Stadium, helping McCann\u2019s men earn promotion to the third tier.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He ended the season with 13 appearances to his name and left an impression on the manager, who thought it wise to have him back for another spell.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, McCann heaped praise on Crew for his performance against Tranmere Rovers, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/04\/20\/leeds-united-out-on-loan-talent-dubbed-very-very-good-by-impressed-boss\/678529\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbing him very good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wales_Charlie_Crew_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery good, very, very good. Very pleased with Charlie today\u201d, McCann had said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was interest in the Leeds academy graduate from Doncaster\u2019s fellow League One clubs, but Rovers managed to convince the Whites to send the player back, pleasing their manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nClub<br \/>\nYears<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Leeds United<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2024-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">Doncaster Rovers (loan)<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2025-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Charlie Crew\u2019s career history<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Revealing all about the club\u2019s attempts to bring Crew back, McCann <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk\/news\/2025\/august\/05\/he-s-back--charlie-crew-returns-to-rovers-on-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told his club\u2019s official website<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019ve been chasing Charlie all summer \u2013 probably from the last game of the season at Notts County.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made it clear to Charlie and to Leeds that we\u2019d love to have him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/General_Fans4_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crew was part of Leeds\u2019 pre-season plans, testing Doncaster\u2019s patience, but the club stuck with their interest and eventually got the deal over the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharlie is highly thought of at Leeds. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been around their pre-season programme, played in some of the games and went away on the trip with them so we had to be patient to get him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted that he\u2019s chosen us because there was some big clubs in League One chasing him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Charlie and Leeds have decided this is the best place for him to play his football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crew\u2019s only appearance in a senior Leeds\u00a0 shirt came against Plymouth Argyle in November last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Wood\/Getty Images \u00a0 Doncaster Rovers boss Grant McCann has expressed his delight at having beaten off competition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-323701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114984344902186644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}