The EFL season is underway, with two Leeds United loanees coming off the bench over the weekend to make their second debuts for their respective clubs.<\/p>\n
Having rejoined Doncaster Rovers just days earlier, midfielder Charlie Crew<\/b> made an appearance in their 2-1 win over Mansfield Town, playing the final half-hour on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Welsh international, who featured 13 times for Rovers as they won promotion last season, was introduced with his side trailing 1-0 at the One Call Stadium, before Grant McCann\u2019s men staged a comeback with a brace from Owen Bailey.<\/p>\n
Speaking of his delight at re-signing Crew, McCann said:<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is obviously a special talent, as we all know. Seeing him over the last couple of days in training reminds us how good he is, how much energy he has, and how well he can handle the ball. I\u2019m really pleased to have him back, and I\u2019m pleased that Leeds have trusted us again with his development.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Joe Gelhardt<\/b>\u2019s loan move to Hull City was announced on Saturday morning \u2013 just hours before the forward came on in the 80th minute of the Tigers\u2019 0-0 draw with Coventry City at the CBS Arena.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the move and the impact he hopes Gelhardt will make, Hull boss Sergej Jakirovi\u0107 said:<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was my vision. I asked so many times about him because, in our situation with the embargo and everything else, he wanted to come to us. We need such a player, and there\u2019s no adaptation time. The group likes him, and he knows our environment as well, so this is a very, very good choice for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The EFL Cup awaits both Crew and Gelhardt on Tuesday night, with Doncaster making the short trip to Middlesbrough (7:30pm) whilst Hull City travel to Wrexham (7:45pm).<\/p>\n
Max W\u00f6ber<\/b>, on loan at Werder Bremen, has a little longer to wait until his season gets underway \u2013 the German side\u2019s first competitive match kicking off at 7:45pm on Friday, a DFB-Pokal tie against Arminia Bielefeld.<\/p>\n
After completing his move to Mallorca over the weekend, Mateo Joseph<\/b> could be in line to make his debut for Los Bermellones on Saturday (6:30pm), as they open their 2025\/26 campaign against La Liga champions Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EFL season is underway, with two Leeds United loanees coming off the bench over the weekend to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-337031","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\/115012884852860311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337031","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=337031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}