Football Banter Archive August 20 2015

20 Aug 2015 23:08:44
After missing out on Christian Scales, who has signed for Crawley Town on loan, Neal Ardley has lined up the loan signing of Nat Knight-Percival from Shrewsbury. Knight-Percival has been out since February 2015 with a knee injury, but he has upped his recovery in recent weeks and Micky Mellon is looking to loan him out to a League Two club until the new year. Mellon hopes that the player can get some much need match fitness and could be recalled if needed. Although he is not yet ready to be thrown into the starting eleven at his new club, Knight-Percival will be brought in to provide competition in Wimbledon's three man back line. The left-sided centre back will likely take Karleigh Osbourne's place in the team, after Osbourne shouldered much of the blame for Wimbledon's mid-week capitulation against Cambridge United. Osbourne has struggled on the left side of the three defenders, and may be moved to his favoured position at the right side of the defence, with Barry Fuller moving to a wing back role. A deal is yet to be reached though, and Northampton Town and Bristol Rovers are keen to strike up a short term deal for the defender as well.