After yet another defeat on Monday night at Chelsea, making it 11 defeats in the last 15 games and only two wins in that run, Steve Bruce was questioned as to how it made any sense to let DeAndre Yedlin leave Newcastle for nothing in the middle of a relegation fight.
With Manquillo now set to be out for the rest of the season, Emil Krafth set to start every week and the Swedish defender yet again woeful, the worst player on the pitch at Stamford Bridge. He hasn’t suggested in any game of the few Steve Bruce has chosen to play him in that he is Premier League level, very slow and so poor on the key opening Chelsea goal.
Steve Bruce defending the DeAndre Yedlin decision…
“Look, he [Yedlin] was out of contract (at end of June 2021] and we had three right-backs at the club.
“So we made the decision [to let Yedlin leave for nothing and not replace him].
“You have to make decisions.
“We had to make way for somebody else to come in.
“I have got no regrets.”
So then, hands up those of you who think that it was Steve Bruce that made this decision on Yedlin, that he (Bruce) was perfectly happy with it and that he (Bruce) indeed has ‘got no regrets’ whatsoever.
DeAndre Yedlin in December / January was playing ahead of both Manquillo and Krafth, so why would Steve Bruce suddenly be happy to get rid of Yedlin, especially in the middle of a relegation battle.
Steve Bruce says Yedlin was going to be out of contract at the end of June but what relevance has that? If Newcastle United had received a significant fee then that at least would make some kind of sense to sell the USMNT international now, but to just give him away in the middle of this relegation battle, what manager (or head coach) would choose to do that???