Seb Lochhead hails Dundee coaches and teases return as details of Wolves transfer revealed.
The academy product sealed a move to the Premier League club on transfer deadline day.
Seb Lochhead still harbours hope he could turn out for Dundee in the future.
The 16-year-old departed Dens on Friday to embark on a new adventure with English Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Lochhead is now a Wolves player and admits it would feel “weird” not to pull on the dark blue each morning after being at the club since the age of seven.
Instead it will be black and gold as he joins up with the U/18 side at Molineux for the season ahead.
It’s been quite a journey from “hating” football as a five-year-old and then coming within days of being released on more than one occasion.
‘Can’t thank them enough’
“It’s the best thing that’s ever happened for me, coming through the academy,” Lochhead told Dundee FC’s YouTube channel after his move to Wolves was confirmed.
“When I started at the academy I was playing really well but there was a spell when I was nine or 10 when we trained at Manhattan Works and I only had three weeks left to enjoy it because I was getting released.
“In those three weeks I really proved my worth and who I was as a player.
“After that they kept me and I was really grateful because I thought that was going to be the end.
“I really kicked on and then at 13 or 14 under Jamie McBrearty I was close to being released again, I was unfit, not playing well and starting on the bench.
“Jamie and Gary Ogilvie really got me through it. My mum and dad really helped me as well.
“Then once I got to Scott Robertson, I learned so much off Scott. I can’t praise him enough.”
He added: “It’s crazy the journey I have been on – my mum and dad, Steve Murray really helped me, Stephen Wright, Scott Robertson, Kev Garrett, Jamie McBrearty, Gary Ogilvie, John Coban gave me lifts through to Forfar when I was eight, Iain Jenkins at St John’s too and Gav Beith as well, they have all got me through this.
“And I can’t thank them enough.”
First team experience
The youngster was also full of praise for the first-team players who have taken time to help him this season, too.
Lochhead joined up with Tony Docherty’s senior squad in the summer, despite his tender age, and took part in friendlies against Arbroath and Banik Ostrava.
