Leeds United and Aston Villa have been linked with Coventry City’s FA Cup star Sam McCallum.
Sam McCallum continues to take every challenge in his stride.
The left-back had only made eight first-team appearances for Coventry City before this season but, while watching him perform with such maturity and confidence during Sunday’s FA Cup second round clash at Ipswich Town, it is easy to forget that he is still only 19 years of age.
McCallum shone in a relatively unfamiliar wing-back role, providing a steady stream of pinpoint crosses from out wide as Coventry, thanks to a stoppage time leveller from Aston Villa loanee Callum O’Hare, set up a replay at Portman Road.
“Sam McCallum was outstanding,” said Sky Blues manager Mark Robins, speaking to the Coventry Telegraph. And it’s fair to say the ‘home’ fans at St Andrews agree.
According to the Telegraph, Championship trio Leeds United, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest are all interested in signing McCallum during the January transfer window and the teenager has surely done his chances of a move up the Football League pyramid no harm at all with a superb display against Paul Lambert’s talented Ipswich side.
Robins admitted last month that ‘money talks’ and Coventry may be forced to cash in if they receive an offer that they simply cannot refuse.
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