Sheffield Wednesday can expect to face two of their former players against Fulham on Saturday.
Close friends Michael Hector and Josh Onomah spent the whole of last season on loan at Wednesday.
And both were linked with permanent returns to Hillsborough ahead of the current campaign.
As it transpired, the pair instead ended up at Craven Cottage, with Onomah thrown in as a makeweight in Ryan Sessegnon’s £25 million transfer to Tottenham Hotspur and Hector following in a £5.3m move from Chelsea ahead of the January transfer window.
Up until recently, it was the latter player – voted Sheffield Wednesday’s best last term – who had made by far the biggest impact on Scott Parker’s team. In his 18 – consecutive – Championship starts, Hector has recorded 10 wins, as many clean sheets and just three defeats, helping to cement Fulham’s place in the play-off positions.
But Onomah, too, is finding his feet for the Cottagers. Having scored or assisted just two goals in his first 24 league outings, the 23-year-old has directly contributed to three in his last five now.
And his form leaves Wednesday with something else to think about in a game they might yet need to win to survive relegation – the outcome of the EFL’s case against them pending.
Without such worries at Hillsborough, Onomah, and indeed Hector, may be lining up on the opposite side.
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