Sheffield Wednesday youngster, James Kay, has ‘grown so much’ this season as he continues his path into the Owls’ first team.
Kay, who has spent time training with the first team at Middlewood Road this season, has spent years climbing through the ranks at his boyhood club, and earlier this year got his first taste of a senior fixture as he was named on the bench for the FA Cup clash with Brentford.
Sadly there will be no debut this season, however, after he picked up a knee injury that has ruled him out for the rest of the campaign, but there are high hopes for him once he recovers. The 17-year-old could well form part of the club’s preseason plans as the summer rebuild starts in a few months’ time, and Pedersen has liked what he’s seen from the talented teen.
“He’s a strong person and a really good player,” he said. “He has grown so much to train with us, and of course it’s very difficult when you’re so young. His skill is to be there when something is difficult, and just keep going.
“He’s injured now and out for the rest of the season, but of course this is a player where we’re thinking about what we want to have as an academy. We want one that’s as strong possible, and we want to find and develop as many players as we can. From the academy to the U18s to the U21s and then the first. He’s one of the guys who, over the next period, we’ll integrate into the first team.”
Kay is one of 27 players aged 21 or under who have formed part of a first team matchday squad over the course of the current campaign, and he’ll be hoping that there are many more experiences like the one he had against the Bees in the not-so-distant future.
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