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FLW's Coventry City fan pundit waves away claims of Brandon Thomas-Asante attracting Premier League interest

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Brandon Thomas-Asante has been the talk of the talk so far this Championship season with the forward being in fine goalscoring form for Coventry City.

With a third of the 2025/26 EFL Championship campaign now played, the league table is starting to take shape, with fans gauging whereabouts their side will finish come May, and not many could've predicted proceedings to have played out as they have done up to this point. Surprise underperformers such as Sheffield United and Southampton, combined with overachievers like Middlesbrough and Stoke, have made the second tier a tantalising prospect and may it continue for the winter months ahead.

One side, however, that cannot be denied their quality is table-toppers Coventry City, who have scored a staggering 40 goals already, and have lost only once at the turn of the November international break.

Unsurprisingly, Frank Lampard's Sky Blues have emerged as the early favourites to secure promotion to the top flight, which has ever so slightly eluded them in recent years.

With the ex-Chelsea midfielder seeming to have created a well-oiled machine, one man who has received many of the plaudits is their top goalscorer Brandon Thomas-Asante, who has been tipped by Lee Hendrie in a Football League World exclusive to be one player in the division to attract Premier League interest once the January transfer window opens.

Coventry City urged to "not get carried away" when it comes to Brandon Thomas-Asante

Thomas-Asante is currently the man leading the Championship's scoring charts, having found the back of the net 10 times in 15 appearances for the Sky Blues with three assists to go with that run.

His turnaround in form from last season is something not many Coventry fans could've predicted, as the Ghanaian international merely netted four times and provided three assists in 38 Championship matches last term. Since arriving from West Brom, it looked as though the Baggies had got the better end of the deal worth an initial £2.25m despite the fact the forward made it into double-figures during his final campaign at The Hawthorns.

As for the here and now, with the 26-year-old at the top of his game, Sky Sports pundit Lee Hendrie spoke exclusively to FLW saying that the Coventry man could be one for the Premier League very soon. However, Football League World's Coventry City fan pundit, Chris, believes that the top flight may be a step too far for their in-form man.

Chris said: "Brandon Thomas-Asante has been the talk of the Championship this season. 10 goals and three assists only matched by (Carlton) Morris at Derby with 10 goals as well. A phenomenal start to the season, but I think we need to not let ourselves get carried away.

"This is the same player who, this time last season, we were asking ourselves if we got ripped off by West Brom. I think he was about £2.5m-£3m and before this season started, in the summer, he was one of the players that I would've happily seen us sell even at a bit of a loss.

"West Brom fans were laughing at us when we bought him. Obviously, now, we're having the last laugh.

"It's been absolutely amazing to see him in this purple patch, but I think that's all it is. I don't see him keeping it up for the rest of the season. I don't imagine him scoring 30 goals, I just don't think he's got that in him. I don't think any of our players have got that in them. Haji Wright certainly doesn't either."

Brandon Thomas-Asante can guide Coventry City to the top flight and become a Premier League player

For Thomas-Asante, he has certainly been Coventry's standout performer when it comes to the final third of the pitch by forming a tidy duo between himself and Wright, aided by the likes of Tatsuhiro Sakamoto and Ephron Mason-Clark also.

With the Sky Blues currently sitting pretty in top spot, five points clear of Middlesbrough and the chasing pack, if there was ever a season to put an end to their long-standing wait for a return to the Premier League, the time is now.

For FLW's Coventry City fan pundit, Chris, he believes that Thomas-Asante would benefit from sticking around at the CBS Arena as his departure could disrupt their current rhythm at the top end of the pitch. If Lampard is able to keep his squad together for January and beyond, then Coventry have every chance of turning their promotion hopes into a reality.

Chris said: "He's clearly a very, very good player, he works his socks off for the team, he can play in a couple of different positions, but I think we need to maybe temper our expectations a little bit. To see talk of Premier League clubs being interested in him is absolutely insane. He's not achieved anything yet. He's not proven anything. If he can keep it up for the rest of the season, and we don't get promoted, and he scores 20–25 goals, then yeah, by all means.

"Maybe the teams that go up instead of us would want to bring him in, or a team struggling for goals, I don't know, like a West Ham or a (Nottingham) Forest. But to be talking about Premier League interest at this stage of the season is just nuts. I don't think he's, in any way, shape, or form a Premier League player yet.