Tom Cannon moves on from ‘difficult’ Leicester City spell and takes forward Jamie Vardy lessons

Tom Cannon will look to put a “difficult” few months at Leicester City behind him and bang in the goals for Stoke this season.

The striker sealed a deadline-day loan move to the Potteries and is excited to get playing again after finding himself out of favour at City. Handed the number nine shirt at Stoke, he is expected to be their first-choice striker this season.

If Cannon is in the 11 when Stoke travel to Oxford for the first game after the international break, it will be just his second competitive appearance since early March, and his first start since February. Despite doing well when he first came into the City side, scoring three goals and setting up two more across January and February, he then found himself an unused substitute under Enzo Maresca, while Steve Cooper’s selection in pre-season suggested he wasn’t in the new manager’s plans either.

For Cannon, that’s not been easy. He feels like he’s put his all into training and played well for City when opportunities have arisen

“I suppose it’s been hard,” he told StokeOnTrentLive. “Obviously as a player you want to be playing so when you’re not it’s difficult but it’s how you balance it.

“I’ve been going into training every day and giving it my all. For whatever reason I haven’t had the minutes but when I have played I think I’ve done well.

“Hopefully I can take that over here now and hit the ground running. There’s no better feeling in football, especially as a striker, to be scoring goals so hopefully I can get back to that as soon as possible.”

Cannon will be hoping to show off the aspects of his game that he’s learned from training alongside Jamie Vardy since first recovering from his back problem. Growing up in Everton’s academy, Cannon watched clips of Vardy and Luis Suarez to hone his game, but then got to see first hand the City icon in action, helping to add more to his skillset.

“Jamie Vardy is one of the best at it, if not the best,” he said. “Growing up I used to watch clips of him and his style of play.

“To be there with him in training was a bit mad at first but when it’s every day you gradually get used to it and I’ve become good mates with him. It’s good that he was there to learn from and I can add little bits from his game into mine, which are only going to improve me.”

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