Leeds United moved top of the Championship table on Tuesday while Tottenham Hotspur loanee Carter-Vickers dropped to the bottom with Stoke City.
What we’d give for an insight into the mind of Cameron Carter-Vickers right now.
He could have been top of the Championship right now, honing his considerable talents under the mythical musings of Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds United. Instead, a 1-0 home defeat to Huddersfield Town on Tuesday night means he is stuck at the opposite end of the table, three points adrift in rock bottom.
According to The Sun, Leeds were leading the race to sign the perennial loanee on another 12-month deal from Tottenham Hotspur in August. But, two months on, it’s becoming painfully clear that that he bet on the wrong horse.
Weeks after reports suggested that Carter-Vickers was on his way to Elland Road, the USA international rocked up at Stoke City instead hoping to form a partnership with Ryan Shawcross and lead Nathan Jones’ Potters back to the big time.
He probably didn’t expect then, ten games into the season, that Stoke would be far closer to the League One than the Premier League. No wins, two draws, eight defeats and a pair of points, The Potters are in crisis.
All the while, Leeds are sitting pretty at the top again after a hard-fought 1-0 win against fellow promotion chasers West Bromwich Albion. A first home win of the season feels like a turning point at precisely the right time.
How Stoke, and Carter-Vickers, could do with a turning point of their own.
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