Dundee manager Tony Docherty has been discussing the loan signing of midfielder Sammy Braybrooke as he pushes to make the second senior appearance of his career this weekend
Sammy Braybrooke with Will Alves and Kasey McAteer ahead of Leicester City’s pre-season friendly against Augsburg
Sammy Braybrooke with Will Alves and Kasey McAteer ahead of Leicester City’s pre-season friendly against Augsburg (Image: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)
Sammy Braybrooke has wowed his new team-mates already as the Leicester City prospect looks to make his mark in the senior game.
The 20-year-old midfielder moved on loan to Dundee in the Scottish Premiership this week for his first spell away from City and his first real opportunity at senior level. He could make his debut this weekend when Dundee host St Mirren.
But even before his first outing, he’s already made an impression. Dundee manager Tony Docherty has said Braybrooke’s showings in training “have taken his team-mates’ breath away”.
“He is a really talented young footballer who will see this as a platform to show how good he is,” Docherty told the Courier. “He has some pedigree.
“If you ask any of the boys who have trained with him this week, he takes your breath away. He is a huge talent. We are delighted to have him on board.
“When it got made aware he could be available he was very much on our radar. We weren’t sure we would get him because of the quality he has. We had real stiff competition but as a club we represent ourselves very well.
“I am hugely impressed with him as an individual. He is 20 but has a maturity and a plan for his own career. I am sure he will do really well.
“I have experience of working with Maddison and players of that ilk. Maddison will be a role model. There are real similarities. I still keep in touch with Madders. If you look at Madders, his loan to Aberdeen was pivotal. I am hoping this proves the same way with Sammy.”
If Braybrooke features this weekend, it will be the second senior outing of his career, and his first since his City debut in November 2022, a Carabao Cup cameo against Newport County. Two months after that appearance, the England Under-20 international tore his ACL, and spent 15 months recovering.
He returned to action with City’s Under-21s at the end of last season and has been away with the first team a couple of times this summer, albeit didn’t get a chance to feature in any of the pre-season friendlies. Braybrooke will take on the manager who gave him his senior debut, Brendan Rodgers, when Dundee play Celtic at the end of October.
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