After failing to establish themselves back in the Championship in recent seasons Daniel Stendel and Barnsley will be keen to put on a good showing in the coming campaign.

However, after romping impressively to automatic promotion last season in League One, it has been a summer of change for the Tykes with some significant outgoings as well as incomings.

Luke Thomas and Mallik Wilks have arrived to bolster the attack after both impressing in the third tier last season whilst Aapo Halme, Mike Bähre, Mads Juel Andersen, Samuel Sahin-Radlinger, Brad Collins, Bambo Diaby and Toby Sibbick also made the move to Oakwell.

Sibbick is somebody who could well have an interesting role to play this season.

This summer has seen both Ethan Pinnock and Liam Lindsay leave for Brentford and Stoke City and, given how crucial the centre-back pairing were to the club's success, it leaves a big hole to fill at the back.

And although his natural position has been as a right-back, he was employed in the centre of defence on occasion last season.

So, what are his chances of breaking into the starting XI?

Barnsley's interest and subsequent purchase of Sibbick was not a surprise given the sort of player he showed himself to be at Kingsmeadow.

He is clearly very good with the ball at his feet and showed his ability to carry the ball forward, when playing both as a centre-back and right-back.

Given how Stendel sets his side up to build from the back, it means that he should not struggle too badly to adapt to life at Oakwell.

A pass accuracy of 67% is very decent as well, especially for a side battling towards the foot of League One, so he certainly has the credentials to take-over in the centre of defence.

I would be more concerned for his chances at right-back, however. Dimitri Cavare showed himself to be one of the finest attacking full-backs in League One last season, racking up two goals and five assists.

Although he was operating in a far less attacking unit, one assist from Sibbick shows that he will have his work cut out in that sense and probably lacks the necessary attributes to challenge.

However, with most of his competition at centre-back likely to come from Halme and Diaby, both new signings, and with Barnsley's preference of playing three at the back, it would not surprise me to see Stendel employ him as one of those three.

He has all the attributes necessary to thrive in that role and it will be very interesting to see how he is deployed throughout the campaign.