Leicester City midfielder explains Chesterfield loan decision after Newport County spell

The 21-year-old has joined on loan from Leicester City until the end of the season. The central midfielder impressed at struggling Newport County in the first part of the campaign before he was recalled and sent to the Spireites.

"They play football the way I see football, or how it should be played, and I think it will suit me down to the ground to be honest,” he said in an interview.

The decision by the Foxes to bring him back from Newport and loan him to another club in the same division has been criticised by some people, with many expecting him to go to League One, but Braybrooke is happy with the outcome.

He explained: "There was that talk about going to a higher league, but I looked at it from a point of I just want to play football really and I want to go to a team that suits me, that I'll fit in straight away.

"I didn't want to adapt my game to change, and that's what you want when you're a loan player. You want to just go straight in because you can run out of time. You could go four games without playing and then that's a month and you've only got three months left, so you want to fit in straight away. I feel like it's (Chesterfield) the right fit for that."

Braybrooke, who made his Spireites debut against MK Dons earlier this month, said his agent got a call from Chesterfield towards the end of December and he then spoke to Paul Cook. After a couple of days, he decided a move to the Blues was the right one for him, leaving him ‘buzzing.’

The England youth international, who had to overcome an ACL injury which kept him out for a year in 2023, believes promotion is not ‘unrealistic’ this season.

He added: "As a team, I think we've got the belief and the quality that we can do good things this year and I'd say promotion is an aim. It's not unrealistic, it's definitely a realistic target. We're just looking to take it game by game and have a strong finish this season."