Reports that York City have agreed a fee with City to permanently sign ***an-Walcott who's currently doing well on loan up there. Meanwhile, Tan's Kortrijk club is rock bottom of the Belgian League and look about to lose their manager (Alexandersson?) to the Iceland national team.
Fee likely to be quite small seeing as we paid nothing for him. Unlikely to get game time back here with 4 cb's ahead of him. Good luck to him. And at Kortrijk the striker we bought from Croatia/Serbia has done nothing on loan there and is now out injured.
At 22 and with what's currently in front of him at CB and LB, it would be unlikely he would get any chance with us. A big step down, but if it gets him regular football and in the shop window, good luck to him. On the Kortrijk front, I read that Simic is injured and out for some time.
I understand the numbers game, but if we could've offloaded Collins I'd have kept him at the club - classy left footed back 4 player who can play out wide. O'Dowda needs to be pushed further up the pitch and rely on Bagan or Tsunoda behind him on the left.
I think if we had 6-8 more points on the board and were more comfortable in mid-table, it would be a viable option. Its the problem that comes with a poor start to the season.
U21 keeper Jake Dennis loaned out to Oldham. Joel won't get his Exeter debut tonight as their game against Mansfield is postponed.
Two of our loaned out players on opposite sides today. Joel on the bench for Exeter (he might have been better off starting for Cheltenham every week than sitting on the bench for exeter) with Eli King starting for Stevenage, his goal cancelling out Josh Magennis' penalty.
