Huddersfield Daily Examiner

It’s a no-go for Ojo from the Terriers

- By MEL BOOTH @examinerHT­AFC By STEVEN CHICKEN @examinerHT­AFC

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DANNY Ward rejoins Huddersfie­ld Town determined to add to his goals for the club.

When the 28-year-old first became a Terrier, on loan from Bolton, he was a teenager of limited experience and embarking on his third spell out gaining knowledge, after matches for Swindon and Coventry.

At Town, he scored four goals in nine games on loan, earning a permanent transfer, and, over the next four years, added a further 130 appearance­s and 17 goals – mostly from wide positions.

So 140 Town games and 21 goals – numbers Ward will be desperate to bolster under the guidance of head coach Carlos Corberan.

Playing as a No9, he will be expected to bring various

HUDDERSFIE­LD Town are reported to be interested in Liverpool winger Sheyi Ojo.

Goal.com claim the Terriers join Reading and Nottingham Forest in looking to taking the 23-year-old on loan this season.

However, the Examiner understand­s Town will not be making a move for Ojo this summer.

The Terriers have Karlan Grant, Adama Diakhaby, Issac Mbenza, Ramadan Sobhi and Josh Koroma on the books who are able to play in wide attacking positions.

Four of those spent time out on loan last season, with Diakhaby and Mbenza dropped from the first-team squad by then-manager Danny Cowley last December, but the club insist there is a clean slate for all players under new head coach Carlos Corberan.

To that end even Sobhi, who has not appeared for Town since 2018, has been instructed to report back to training at Canalside pending a resolution over his potential transfer back to Egypt or elsewhere in Europe, with chief executive Mark Devlin saying the club would expect him to compete for a first-team place if a deal cannot be struck.

However, none of that is to say that Town are out of the market for wingers entirely if a suitable upgrade on any of those players were available. Danny Ward is Town’s first pre-season signing, but he is now an out-and-out striker rather than a winger.

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