Sky Blues eyeing move for Wrexham promotion winner

Coventry Metropolis are fascinated about bringing in Wrexham midfielder Thomas O’Connor in the summertime window, in accordance with a report from the Mirror.

Who’s Thomas O’Connor?

O’Connor got here by the Southampton youth system after becoming a member of the membership in 2015 from the Republic of Eire, the place the spotlight was captaining the Southampton under-21 aspect all through the vast majority of the 2018/19 season.

The Irish midfielder loved two separate loan spells at then-League One aspect Gillingham throughout each the 2019/20 and 2020/21 campaigns, the place he made 67 appearances, scoring one goal and assisting six. O’Connor started to show his versatility all through this mortgage spell, making appearances at left-back, left midfield, central midfield, and central defence.

Regardless of a optimistic mortgage spell, Southampton determined to launch O’Connor on the finish of the 2020/21 season and Burton Albion picked up the midfielder on a free transfer, the place he signed a two-year deal to proceed enjoying on the League One stage.

The Irishman solely made 21 appearances throughout his six-month spell at Burton, the place he started to display his goal-scoring prowess, earlier than sealing a January 2022 deadline day move to Wrexham, who had been competing within the Nationwide League on the time.

The 24-year-old’s Wrexham profession has been very stop-start, making simply 36 appearances out of a potential 79 throughout his 18-month spell with the Welsh membership which has resulted in promotion to the Soccer League.

Regardless of his damage issues, the quantity 22 has acquired reward from journalist Mark Griffith, who famous that the participant had begun to place in ‘heroic‘ performances after settling into the membership.

Would O’Connor be an excellent signing for Coventry Metropolis?

Coventry simply narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League final season, shedding on penalties within the play-off closing to Luton City, and because of this are expected to lose quite a lot of key gamers this summer season together with Gustavo Hamer and Viktor Gyokeres.

O’Connor has proven previously that he can carry out when he faces Championship stage opposition, along with his 8/10 performance towards Sheffield United within the FA Cup this season the place he recorded a aim and an help a testomony to his high quality and stage of efficiency.

There shall be query marks about if the Irishman could be a hit on the Championship aspect, nevertheless, his positional versatility and his beforehand spectacular performances in League One ought to give supervisor Mark Robins the boldness that ought to he be capable to recover from his damage issues, the left-footed midfielder may effectively be a hit on the Sky Blues, and might probably exchange Hamer.