Sutekhwinchester_royal Tbh I will be staggered if he's only been brought in to play U21 football for the rest of the season. He was impressing for a team at the top of League 1 for the first half of the season, was playing regular football, and seems to be at the age now where he'll want to be playing competitive football week in week out. He could play U21 football at Man City for the next 6 months with better coaches/facilities/players than here, so there's no reason why he'd come here just to do that.
Have to say we are overloaded with midfielders at all levels at the moment.
Assuming we get this bloke then would suggest the Williams will be leaving this month or the summer when his contract expires while Fernandez will certainly be returning to Spain and Taylor will be released. This would leave 4 players battling for 2 central midfield places; Quinn, Toshiba, Evans and Norwood. This would be the expected competition.
Not sure what it means for the likes of Kuhl though, perhaps he'll be released as he's not made any real impact on the first team, unlike several of his peers.
I am not sure why Taylor the left back is affected by this signing? Otherwise I can also see some movement to offload a couple of the loanees to make a bit of financial space to bring in players that we actually need. Fernandez is a frontrunner to leave as he hasn't been used much at all - I'd be intrigued to know if SC actually wanted him or was he thrust on him by the board? Piazon, still looks like an early return candidate and I would hope that they are having a serious think about Hector too (unless there is some financial deal
that is to our benefit). To be honest, my inclination would be to send Vydra back too; he certainly has got a lot of talent, we just aren't seeing the effect of it here in the quantities that we should be (I suspect that this one is not going to happen as the financial losses would be too marked).
fair point.
