Hammer Nathan Trott was flying high at Sky Bet League One side AFC Wimbledon on a season-long loan from West Ham until he was displaced with Cardiff City keeper Joe Day.
The 21-year-old West Ham goalkeeper made 93 saves during the first half of the 2019-20 campaign, the most by any goalkeeper among the top four tiers of English football. He also saved a penalty and kept four clean sheets.
“The season has been going really well on a personal level,” Trott said. “I feel like my game has improved a lot. I’ve become a lot more confident and my understanding of the game has improved. “It’s always good to see the hard work I put in training show up in stats.”
At the end of January the Dons signed 29-year-old Cardiff City goalkeeper Joe Day on loan until the end of the season and it is Day who has become the first choice keeper over night with Trott relegated to bench for the first two days since Joe’s signing.
Getting battle-hardened at Wimbledon isn’t a bad thing at all. There can be no doubt that Nathan is destined for the top and is working hard to get there and become a first-choice keeper. This knock will only inspire and drive him on to becoming a top goalkeeper. The experience that he is getting right now is invaluable both as former first-choice and number two.