{"id":336839,"date":"2025-08-11T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336839\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:30:15","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-face-hull-city-competition-for-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336839\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday Face Hull City Competition For Midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> Carl Recine\/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;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/sheffield-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> face competition from Hull City in the race to sign <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> starlet Toby Collyer, according to journalist <a style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/man-u-babe-by-136245892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Nixon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Owls are operating under a transfer embargo which is making life difficult for new boss Henrik Pedersen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Wednesday are able to bring in free transfers or free loans, though, and have been making efforts to explore that avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have two Manchester United starlets, Collyer and Harry Amass, on their list of potential loan targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Owls have been trying to convince Manchester United to send the players to Hillsborough for the season.<\/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\/Sheffield_Wednesday_Henrik_Pedersen_620_ofg.webp.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amass is a highly rated left-back and Sheffield Wednesday <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/08\/sheffield-wednesday-looking-to-land-defensive-starlet\/690823\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are trying to convince Manchester United to send him to them on loan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Getting midfielder Collyer has been made even more difficult by other <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Championship<\/a> clubs wanting him and now Hull have been added to that mix.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<tr>\nLevel<br \/>\nYears<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">England U16s<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2019-2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">England U20s<\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 2px solid #ddd; padding: 12px; background-color: #fec368; color: black;\">2024-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Toby Collyer at international level<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sergej Jakirovic\u2019s team are alert to the possibility of signing Collyer and are trying to convince Manchester United to send the young defensive midfielder on loan to the MKM Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have been depending on free transfers and free loans due to their own embargo, but the signing of the 21-year-old would represent a huge coup for them.<\/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_Football3_620_ofg.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hull have just managed to beat Scottish giants Rangers <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/insidefutbol.com\/2025\/08\/07\/deal-is-done-hull-city-beating-rangers-to-leeds-united-star\/690694\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the signature of Joe Gelhardt from Leeds United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It now remains to be seen whether Sheffield Wednesday are able to beat off competition from other clubs to secure the signing of Collyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He managed to feature in six Premier League and four Europa League games for Manchester United last season but could see his chances being limited this term.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A move to the Championship would give him the opportunity to ensure regular first-team action.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carl Recine\/Getty Images \u00a0 Sheffield Wednesday face competition from Hull City in the race to sign Manchester United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012503605004526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336839","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=336839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}