Both Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United are keen to sign Tom Cannon if he is recalled by Leicester from his loan at Stoke City and becomes available. (Yorkshire Post), external
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Brisbane Roar's teenage striker Thomas Waddingham was left out of the A-League side's squad this weekend amid speculation over a bid from Sheffield Wednesday, with QPR and Portsmouth also interested. (Sheffield Star, external)
Stoke could lose loan striker Tom Cannon this week, if Leicester decide to recall him and send him elsewhere, with Wednesday, Sunderland, Luton and Sheffield United all monitoring the 22-year-old Republic of Ireland forward. (Leicester Mercury, external)
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Image source, Rex FeaturesSeveral Championship clubs will be playing close attention to comments from Aston Villa boss Unai Emery about attacking midfielder Louie Barry.
The 21-year-old has been recalled by Villa this week after a stellar loan spell with League One Stockport, where he scored 16 goals this season.
Leeds, Sunderland, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Derby, Middlesbrough, Millwall and Coventry are among the clubs reported to be keen on taking Barry for a stint in the second tier for the remainder of the campaign.
Speaking ahead of Villa's FA Cup third round clash with West Ham, Emery said: "(Barry) trained with us and we are going to make a plan with him, an overall plan,
"I think he is a very good player who is progressing well. He has been on loan doing fantastic. Now we can have a new plan with him.
"He improved because he was scoring a lot of goals on loan. With us he only trained today and yesterday. Of course we are going to try and get a good plan for the club with him."
Sheffield Wednesday will head to the CBS Arena to take on Coventry City in the FA Cup third round on Saturday (18:00 GMT).
Coventry have progressed from five of their six FA Cup ties against Sheffield Wednesday, including a round four victory last season en route to the semi-final.
Sheffield Wednesday won 2-1 away at Coventry in the Championship earlier this season, ending a 15-game winless run at the Sky Blues in all competitions.
Coventry have scored at least three goals in each of their last four FA Cup matches – only one team in the 21st century has scored 3+ goals in five consecutive games in the competition proper, with Tottenham doing so between January 2021 and February 2022.
Sheffield Wednesday have progressed from their past six FA Cup third round ties, last going out at this stage of the competition in 2016-17.
Coventry's past four home games in the FA Cup have seen 25 goals scored, an average of just over six per game – 3-4 vs Wrexham, 6-2 vs Oxford United, 4-1 vs Sheffield Wednesday, 5-0 vs Maidstone United.
Sheffield Wednesday are keen on a deal for Ipswich defender Harry Clarke on loan for the rest of the season. (Sheffield Star), external
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Image source, Rex FeaturesDaniel Farke led Leeds to the Championship play-off final last season
Leeds United boss Daniel Farke has been named the EFL's Championship manager of the month for December.
Leeds were unbeaten last month, with five wins and one draw from their six games, which saw them finish 2024 top of the table.
They also only conceded two goals in that run, while scoring 13.
It is the first time Farke has won the award this season.
Leeds have drawn their opening two games of January and host Harrogate Town in the FA Cup third round on Saturday.
QPR head coach Marti Cifuentes, Burnley's Scott Parker and Danny Rohl of Sheffield Wednesday were also nominated for the award.
Image source, Rex FeaturesSheffield Wednesday will be without defender Dominic Iorfa for up to two months because of a muscular injury.
The 29-year-old was forced off in the final 20 minutes of the Owls' 2-2 draw with Millwall in the Championship last Saturday.
Iorfa has started 13 league games this season, including the last five matches, as Wednesday's strong winter form as moved them up to 10th and within three points of the play-offs.
"Dom will be out for around eight weeks - which is a long, long time and it's not nice," head coach Danny Rohl told BBC Radio Sheffield, external.
"It's not helpful but we have to find solutions and it's a chance for Gab (Gabriel Otegbayo) to get more minutes."
Otegbayo replaced Iorfa against Millwall and scored the 85th minute equaliser for his first senior goal.
Sheffield Wednesday visit Coventry City in the FA Cup third round on Saturday evening (18:00 GMT).
Image source, Getty ImagesQPR boss Marti Cifuentes, Leeds United's Daniel Farke, Scott Parker of Burnley and Sheffield Wednesday head coach Danny Rohl have been nominated
Queens Park Rangers boss Marti Cifuentes. Leeds United's Daniel Farke, Burnley's Scott Parker and Danny Rohl of Sheffield Wednesday are the four nominees for the Championship's manager of the month award for December.
Rangers started last month second from bottom of the Championship but took 11 points from six games to finish the year in 17th place, five points clear of the relegation zone.
Under Farke, Leeds went unbeaten through the month of December with five wins and one draw which left them top of the table at the end of 2024.
Burnley's amazing defensive record was once again to the fore last month as they conceded only three goals in their six unbeaten games, with three wins and three draws keeping Parker's side well in the race for automatic promotion.
Rohl has led Wednesday into the top half of the Championship and to the fringes of the play-off race.
The Owls came from behind to beat Derby and Oxford before recovering a 3-0 deficit at Middlesbrough to secure a 3-3 draw.
The winner of the award will be announced on Friday morning.
Image source, Rex FeaturesTwo Championship fixtures have been selected for free-to-air TV coverage in the coming weeks.
The all-Yorkshire game between Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday at Elland Road on Sunday, 19 January (12:00 GMT) will be broadcast live on ITV1 and ITVX.
The Tees-Wear derby between Middlesbrough and Sunderland on Monday, 3 February (20:00 GMT) will also be screened live on ITV4 and ITVX.
It is part of an agreement between Sky Sports, ITV and the EFL , externalto give fans the chance to watch coverage of selected EFL and EFL Cup fixtures on free-to-air channels.
There are five straight days of free-to-air coverage of the FA Cup third round, from this Thursday, across the BBC and ITV.
The second leg of the EFL Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Tottenham at Anfield on Thursday, 6 February (20:00 GMT) will also be broadcast live on ITV1 and ITVX.
Brazilian club Santos have submitted a bid to sign Josh Windass, 30, from Sheffield Wednesday. (TalkSport, external)
Image source, Rex FeaturesDanny Rohl's Owls are three points outside the Championship play-off places
Sheffield Wednesday boss Danny Rohl said his side's defensive display in the 2-2 draw against Millwall at Hillsborough was "not good enough".
The Owls led 1-0 after an early Yan Valery strike but missed a number of chances - including a penalty that Ike Ugbo blazed over the bar - and then trailed 2-1 with five minutes remaining, before a late Gabriel Otegbayo shot earned a draw.
"I am very happy with the offensive play - how we created chances against a team who are normally very strong in the defence," Rohl told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"To score two times and have some good opportunities is great but we are conceding too many goals; that is 10 goals conceded in four games and that is not good enough.
"We are top six in the table for scoring but bottom six for conceding. It is not just a team tactical thing but individual decision-making and mistakes.
"We have to step up as a group if we want to achieve more. We have to improve the defending. We have to take responsibility. We entertain, but we entertain too much.
"We had good moments and movement attacking-wise, but to win games it is about clean sheets. We should win this game, but we didn't."
Image source, Getty ImagesSean Fusire started all four of Sheffield Wednesday's EFL Cup ties this season, including their fourth round exit at Brentford
Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Sean Fusire has agreed a new extended contract with the Championship club.
The 19-year-old signed his first professional deal with Wednesday in 2022, having joined the club at the age of nine.
He made his debut as a 17-year-old in a 1-0 FA Cup defeat by Fleetwood Town in February 2023 but has yet to make a league appearance.
Wednesday have not disclosed for how long the extension ties Fusire to Hillsborough.
Millwall head to Hillsborough on Saturday for their first away match under new boss Alex Neil (15:00 GMT).
Neil began his reign with a 1-0 home defeat by Oxford United on New Year's Day and will be hoping for a brighter outcome against Sheffield Wednesday as the Lions look over their shoulder at the drop zone.
However the Owls are in fine form, with forward Josh Windass' stunning goal from inside his own half helping them to a thrilling 4-2 win over Derby County on 1 January.
The victory took them up into ninth on the Championship table, just three points short of a play-off spot.
Sheffield Wednesday have lost three of their last four league meetings with Millwall (W1), having only lost two of the previous 14 (W6 D6).
Following a 3-0 home win in August this season, Millwall will be looking to record a league double over Sheffield Wednesday for the first time since the 2002-03 season under Mark McGhee.
This is the first time both of Sheffield Wednesday's first two league games of a calendar year have come at home since 2017, when they drew 0-0 with Wolves before beating Huddersfield 2-0.
Millwall have won just one of their 11 away league games this season (D6 L4), scoring just five goals across their last 10 on the road, since losing 3-4 to Bristol City on MD2.
Millwall manager Alex Neil has won just one of his last eight league games as a manager away to Yorkshire opposition, beating Hull 3-0 with Stoke in September 2022. That run includes a 1-0 loss at Sheffield Wednesday with Preston in January 2021.
Image source, Rex FeaturesDanny Rohl has been assistant manager for Germany, Bayern Munich, RB Leipzig and Southampton
Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl believes his side "need" clean sheets to have any chance of climbing further up the table.
Rohl's comments come after the Owls beat Derby County 4-2 at Hillsborough with forward Josh Windass scoring one of the goals of the season from inside his own half.
However, strikes from Jerry Yates and Ebou Adams meant there was no clean sheet to be had for the hosts with them having now conceded 38 goals in the Championship this season, more than the 36 they have scored.
"At the end you never know, 4-2, one goal, and then it becomes a difficult moment again," Rohl told BBC Radio Sheffield after the game.
"We score a lot, I also think this is good that we scored today a little bit more but we need clean sheets.
"This is the most important key point when you look up to the top teams of the league, they concede not so many goals and this is what you have to improve."
Despite Wednesday now sitting in ninth following today's win, the South Yorkshire club have the fifth worst defence in the league with only Plymouth (53), Luton (42), Portsmouth (40), Cardiff (39) and Oxford (39) having conceded more goals, all of whom are in the bottom half of the table.
When asked whether any defensive additions could be made in January, Rohl added that new arrivals at Hillsborough would have to be "impact" players.
"We will try in January to do something but it must be really be an impact player and this for me is important," he said.
"When you ask me about a centre-back it's right footed, left footed would be nice but everyone wants a left foot.
"The targets are clear, now we look what we can do."
Rohl and Sheffield Wednesday next face Millwall at home on Saturday. The 13th-placed Lions sit four places behind the Owls on 29 points.
Image source, Rex FeaturesSheffield Wednesday conceded three goals for the second league match in a row to lose out to Preston North End in their final fixture of the year.
Only five Championship teams have conceded more goals than the Owls this season, and the defensive frailties are beginning to take their toll.
"It's frustrating. I thought we were really good, and then you come out losing 3-1," forward Josh Windass told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"But you can't be successful and go where we want to go and concede three goals a game."
Windass scored a dazzling goal from 25 yards out to level the scoreline to 1-1 in the second-half, but the equaliser only lasted six minutes before defender Dominic Iorfa conceded a penalty to gift Preston the lead once more.
The forward was then denied a double by the North End keeper before Emil Riis completed his own at close range to put the game out of reach of the visitors.
"Overall, in terms of performance, I thought we were miles the better team. In control a lot, played really good stuff, and then we shoot ourselves in the foot," Windass added.
"You can't keep coming back from behind; it's not going to keep happening. We need to start keeping clean sheets and scoring the first goal; that would be nice."
You can listen to the full post-match reaction on BBC Sounds.
