WANDERERS will have to get in line if they intend to take US defender DeAndre Yedlin on loan from Tottenham.

While Neil Lennon has made tentative enquiries about the pacy full-back, who has seemingly been displaced by the arrival of Kieran Trippier at White Hart Lane, it seems there will be plenty of competition for his signature.

Talk of a move to Norwich City appears to have cooled, while big-spending Derby County were also linked with the American yesterday.

Lennon is certainly in the market for a right-back, especially one equally comfortable as a wing-back, and is desperate to add more pace to his team.

Yedlin certainly has all those attributes but if Spurs decide to loan him out for the season, it could come down to which Championship club is willing to pay the bigger slice of the former Seattle Sounders star’s wages.

Wanderers’ current financial situation would definitely not put them at the head of that particular queue.

It looks increasingly likely that Lennon will have to look towards the loan market to supplement his squad this season, despite finishing the previous campaign advising the club against that route.

“It’s a quick fix,” he said in May. “Ideally I want players under contract here.

“Project is probably the wrong word but in terms of developing the football club you want to bring in players in their mid-twenties who are hungry, their wages won’t be astronomical but more importantly they want to improve.

“Some of the loan players we brought in did very well for us, made us better, but there is always a sense that this is not their club. Maybe they have an eye on what is going to happen in the future.”

Wanderers had nine players on loan at one stage last season to cover for a lengthy list of injuries, and have also experienced problems waiting for players to become available in the past.

Currently, the club expect two new faces when pre-season training begins next Monday – goalkeeper Ben Amos and striker Gary Madine.

Meanwhile, ex-Wanderer Julian Darby has been appointed as a coach at Leeds United.

Darby left Nottingham Forest in March with Billy Davies and did not work with his replacement, Dougie Freedman. The 47-year-old ex-Burnden Park man has now linked up with ex-Wigan boss Uwe Rosler at Elland Road.