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Sheffield Wednesday are being linked with a lot of players this summer, but one name stands out as somebody that the club should pursue.

Sheffield Wednesday need a proven goalscorer in League One next season, and one name stands out as being potentially the right man for the job.

Few other clubs in the entire EFL ended the 2025-26 season are in as much need of a complete squad rebuild as Sheffield Wednesday.

The South Yorkshire club finished bottom of the Championship table with zero points, and were 41 from safety, with their first-team squad having been torn asunder by the effects of the club's financial crisis and the transfer embargoes that came about as a result of it.

But Hillsborough is a very different place, this summer. The club are under new management, in the form of Arise Capital, and the new owners have made no secret of their desire to get the club back to the Championship at the earliest available opportunity.

This has led to intense speculation over the summer months concerning who could be brought in at Hillsborough with a view to making that stay as brief as possible, and one of the key areas in which Wednesday need to drastically improve is in attack.

Sheffield Wednesday urged to pursue Davis Keillor-Dunn

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Sheffield Wednesday have been linked to a number of strikers already this summer, including Yuki Ohashi, Colby Bishop and Harry Gray, but there's one that stands out more than any to our Sheffield Wednesday fan pundit Patrick McKenna when we spoke to him about the names that have been connected to a Hillsborough move this summer.

"I think Davis Keillor-Dunn is the standout from the list," Patrick told us. "We are crying out for goalscorers and essentially we're looking for players who can find the net in this division."

Patrick is aware of Keillor-Dunn's previous successes in League One, and is firmly of the opinion that this proves that the player can do a job for his club next season: "Keillor-Dunn fits this category. In the last few seasons, he's clearly grasped this division and I don't think that, if he came to us with the correct supply, he would struggle to get goals for us. From the go next season, we need players who know where the goal is and who offer that threat which was non-existent last season."

And given Keillor-Dunn's 2025-26 season, in which he was signed by Championship club Wrexham at the very end of the January transfer window but failed to tie down regular first-team football at his new club, Patrick feels that the striker could have something to prove by returning to League One: "I think he's the right model of player that we're looking for; he's a reasonable age, and I think that, having gone back to Wrexham and not receiving game time, it may give him another chance to prove what he can do."

What's being said about the chase for Davis Keillor-Dunn?

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A known League One goalscorer potentially being available in the summer transfer window has provoked a lot of comment from fans of different clubs; here's what's being said about the possibility of Sheffield Wednesday making a move for Davis Keillor-Dunn.

This Mansfield Town fan is struck by how many players Sheffield Wednesday are being linked with this summer:

Journalist George Smith of the Sheffield Star feels that Keillor-Dunn would be a "statement signing", if Wednesday are able to get his signing over the line.

And this Mansfield fan is struck by the number of moves that Keillor-Dunn has made over the last few years; he's played for five different clubs - Oldham Athletic, Burton Albion, Mansfield Town, Barnsley and Wrexham - in the last five years.

Davis Keillor-Dunn could be the key to a quick return to the Championship for Sheffield Wednesday

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Proven goalscorers at any level of the professional game are always likely to be in high demand, and Sheffield Wednesday aren't the only club who've been linked with a potential move for Davis Keillor-Dunn.

One of the other clubs with whom he's been linked with is Leicester City, and this case could be strengthened by Leicester's recent appointment of the former Barnsley manager Conor Hourihane to their coaching staff. Hourihane left Oakwell at the end of last season after 14 months with the club, and was the manager under whom Keillor-Dunn flourished throughout the first half of 2025-26.

There can be little doubting Keillor-Dunn's ability in League One. Over a season and a half at Oakwell, he scored 31 League goals in 6 appearances for the Reds, and prior to that he scored 22 times in League Two for Mansfield Town as they clinched promotion to the third tier for the first time since the 2002-03 season.

His move to Wrexham certainly didn't work out as he might have hoped. It wasn't the first time that he'd been with the club, having scored once in six appearances for them after signing for the second half of the 2019-20 season, after having been released by the Scottish club Ross County the previous summer.

But he managed just seven appearances for Wrexham over the course of the second half of last season, of which six came in the Championship, and just 89 minutes of game-time in total. With Wrexham themselves strengthening towards a push for a place in the Premier League, they may be amenable to selling the player, who's contracted with them until 2029, to clear out space for fresh reinforcements of their own.

A challenge from Leicester City for Keillor-Dunn is a big potential obstacle to the player signing for Sheffield Wednesday