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Sheffield Wednesday want to keep Sunderland loanee Connor Wickham
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY manager Dave Jones is hoping to keep hold of Connor Wickham for longer following the expiry of the teenage striker’s loan spell.
will sit down with the chairman, talk to Martin O’Neill up at Sunderland and see where we go from here.
Wickham, 19, who scored his first goal for the Owls in Saturday’s 1-0 win at Leicester, is due to return to parent club Sunderland after making six appearances during his month-long youth loan at the club.
But Jones is keen to extend the England Under-21 international’s stay at Hillsborough and said: “I will sit down with the chairman, talk to Martin O’Neill up at Sunderland and see where we go from here.”