'Massive' - Henrik Pedersen gives verdict on Sheffield Wednesday loanee's development
Tayo Adaramola has come on in leaps and bounds since joining Sheffield Wednesday, sparking calls for him to re-join the club again this summer.
Sheffield Wednesday manager Henrik Pedersen has saluted wing-back Tayo Adaramola for his progress since arriving on loan at Hillsborough.
The 22-year-old joined Wednesday on loan from Premier League club Crystal Palace for the remainder of the season in February after Harry Amass had returned to Manchester United.
Adaramola had spent the first half of the season on loan at Leyton Orient, making 19 appearances for the League One side.
After Pedersen, towards the end of the mid-season window, outlined the importance of strengthening the Owls’ left-sided options, Adaramola arrived in S6 with the expectation of being thrown straight into the starting line-up - a scenario that quickly transpired.
He has made 12 appearances for the Owls thus far, making 11 starts. He helped Wednesday secure their first clean sheet of 2026 against Coventry City at the Coventry Building Society Arena on Saturday, making a solid defensive contribution.
Continuing to go from strength-to-strength, Pedersen is delighted with the progress the Dublin-born wing-back has made since swapping Selhurst Park for Hillsborough.
“I think when we all saw him in the first game we thought he has a good body, but it was difficult for him,” the Wednesday boss told The Star. “I think all can see his development in the last month.
”He's a strong character, I really like him. His development has been massive.”
Pedersen, last month, challenged Adaramola to improve his tactical understanding, admitting he required “a big education” from a tactical point of view.
“He starts to understand when we're speaking,” added Pedersen. “’What are we doing, why are we doing it, how are we doing this?’
“But to get this personally right for a player, what the manager and the coaches are saying, is that do you understand why you're doing things and not just doing things. And his general understanding of the game has increased a lot.
“You can still see today he's one-on-one, it's with big variation, sometimes it's really good, sometimes it's not so good. But he has many more good defensive situations now than in the beginning, and it's telling me that he's really, really moving in the right direction.”