He started 39 league games for us last season when we finished seventh. He clearly isn’t mediocre.

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I was thinking more in terms of when we’ve had a lead but were clearly tiring.

Less than 20 miles from his home town.

The goat and the scrote.

£5 million is chicken feed to a Premier League club.

I thought I’d strayed onto a movie thread for a minute 😁

meh

Do you think someone like Luton would take a punt on him?

Looks delighted

https://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/championship/relegation

Or perhaps JDT has become more stubborn. Like you say we don’t know and it’s unlikely we ever will. I’m still intrigued as to why it’s a loan and not a sale though.

I don’t think he should be but I do think he should have been brought on more often recently.

They may have looked elsewhere first though, clearly we’ll never know.

Russell Martin’s move to Southampton is showing that ‘the right way’ takes an awful lot of money.

Would Luton have tested our resolve if TK had still been first choice?

Anyone know anything about this new signing??

You don’t think the fact we’re in the transfer window (ie there’s another way for us to raise funds) could make a difference?

I can’t imagine it will be Travis but if that’s the case at what point does JDT say ‘if he goes I go’?

Uh oh.

Can’t it be both? He’s asked to leave because of a lack of game time and it’s a manager’s job to keep fringe players happy. To your second question, all players should fight for their place.

You don’t consider that to be part of a manager’s job then?

I’m still just about in the keep him club but the problem as I see it is this. He tries to get players to do what he thinks they should be able to do rather than what they actually can do. It’s ‘this is my style and you must fit into’ rather than ‘this is what you can do and I’ll adjust my style accordingly’ In terms of the bit I’ve emboldened, subject to no further outgoings, I think we’d be left with the basis of a good team who need to play a slightly different way.

Keeping fringe players happy is a key part of a manager’s/head coach’s job.

Upgrading from Travis to Tronstad is of little use if you then downgrade from Travis to *insert league one youngster/academy player here*