Michael ReevesSwansea City fans can add the name of Sam McCallum to their list of targets as the club plot a move that would see the defender move to SA1 on a permanent deal.
It has been a summer of strong transfers at the club so far with three arrivals already this week in Mykola Kuharevich, Carl Rushworth and Harrison Ashby all arriving ahead of the new season which starts on Saturday against Birmingham at the Swansea.com stadium.
None of those three names were probably high on the expectations of Swans fans when we went into the season but all three appear to be good additions to the squad with Kuharevich being a personal target of Michael Duff secured by a recruitment team that are definitely doing their job.
That same recruitment team are now showing an interest in McCallum who had a reasonably meteoric rise from his home town Herne Bay to signing for Norwich, then in the Premier League, at the age of just 19.
It was a multi million pound deal that took McCallum to Norwich from Coventry but just twelve starts in three years at the club have led to loan trips back to Coventry (twice) and QPR and now the chance it seems for him to be taken away from Carrow Road.
It is just five years sinceย McCallum was making his full non-League debut in front of a crowd of 272 people in a local derby at Winch’s Field against Ramsgate.
That was when he was at Herne Bay FC, his home-town club, whose first team play in the Isthmian League, in the eighth tier of English football. McCallum played there since the age of five. Apart from short, unsuccessful spells in the youth ranks at Charlton, Gillingham and Chelsea.
It was a graduation from Jamie Vardy’s V9 academy that got him his chance with Coventry – a chance that he thought would never come his way – and ultimately led to the move to Norwich at a time when the national press was speculating that it was Liverpool who could be interested in him.
The move saw him immediately loaned back to Coventry but it is fair to say that his career has stalled a little since and both the Swans and McCallum would hope that a move to South Wales could get that back on track.
This is one to watch for certain and certainly feels like one of those signings that could work for us and potentially more good work for that previously mentioned recruitment team.
