Northampton sign Brighton's Chouchane on loan

Northampton Town have signed midfielder Samy Chouchane on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion for the remainder of the season.

The Tunisia Under-20 international, who will turn 21 next month, has yet to play for the Premier League club's senior side but has made seven appearances in the EFL Trophy.

It is Chouchane's first loan move and he is Northampton's 11th signing of the summer transfer window.

"He has risen through the levels at Brighton to be involved with the first-team squad and we have been impressed with his attitude, his ability and his progression," said Cobblers manager Jon Brady.

Meanwhile, Callum Morton was delighted to finally break his duck at Sixfields after scoring the first goal of his second loan spell with Northampton Town against Exeter City on Saturday.

Morton found the net eight times in 12 appearances in all competitions for the Cobblers as they won promotion in 2020 - all of them coming in away games.

But his 65th-minute equaliser through the keeper's legs set them on the way to a come-from-behind 2-1 home win in League One.

"I was thinking to myself that it didn't have enough on it, but thankfully it went in and I've got off the mark at this stadium as well," the 24-year-old told BBC Radio Northampton.

The season-long deal between Northampton and parent club Salford City is Morton's seventh loan spell in a career which began at West Bromwich Albion - and he is hoping it will enable him to regain his best form.

"When you come into somewhere and you've got a reputation, the fans are going to get behind you no matter what and give you the chance to show what you can do again," he said.

"The last few years have been hit and miss and coming back somewhere where I've enjoyed myself (in the past), hopefully I'll continue that.

"Must be something about playing Exeter as well. I'm from down that neck of the woods as well [Torquay], but I'm just happy to be on the scoresheet and get three points."

Morton, who also scored against Exeter in Northampton's 4-0 League Two play-off final win at Wembley in June 2020, suffered a nasty-looking cut on his head during a first-half challenge and needed running repairs at the interval after a temporary dressing proved ineffective.

"I think I knew I wasn't going to win the ball but when I put the defender in that position I knew I could win a free-kick and that's what I wanted to do no matter how much it may hurt me, you've got to do that for the team," he said.

"I didn't realise it was bleeding as much as it was until I looked at my fingers and I was covered in my blood. I've had a few of them in the last couple of years."