I think that's the honest approach, and best for everyone all round. The lad's 21. He doesn't want to be going out on loan. That's a road that leads nowhere at this point. He's shown he's got talent. He could hold down a place, I believe, in a club in the lower half of the table of the PL, and even the middle area of it, with ease. The question is — and it's a tough one — can he hold down some sort of a place in the best side in the world? (Doku said that, and he was stating nothing other than the blunt truth, at present). He doesn't want to be sat around on the bench for weeks and months — I wouldn't, in his place — but he'll only be picked on merit, or if we have bad luck with injuries.
It's a turning point, one way or the other.
I can see a loan to a lower prem club, sheff utd possiblyI wonder if a lot of his problems with game time is he always seems to have `niggles`? Misses quite a few games in the season and not sure Pep feels he can rely on him on a fulltime basis to be honest.
I can see a loan to a lower prem club, sheff utd possibly
Talking of false promises, the Howard Kendall era was the one that hurt the most, when he turned up I genuinely thought we had got it right and were on the point of something special, then the top hat went back to Everton, a disaster for all parties, especially Howard.
Nope. Bit too early. We were brilliant for much of the 77-78 season, and I went to many matches, home and away (when you could still get into away grounds on the gate without basically having accumulated hundreds and hundreds of points). We fell away towards the end of the season, but I think we were disheartened by the juggernaut out of nowhere that was Forest. We thought the big enemy was Liverpool, from the previous season.
It wasn't.
It's really in 79 that the clear signs of decline start showing, and we start paying through the nose for Swales's decisions.
I would keep him, he'll get minutes while Doku settles in and especially if we get more injuries.Pep already said he wont be loaned, either stays or if he wants more game time then sold.
Maybe but it sucked all optimism and hope out of the place.Howard was fast descending into a drunken haze around that time - from which he never recovered - so although it felt like a huge loss, I doubt in hindsight that it was….
I would keep him, he'll get minutes while Doku settles in and especially if we get more injuries.
I thought Pep's comments were strange, we loan out other players so i wonder why we wouldn't loan him out?
He's been around the squad long enough to know, very few of our players have that guarantee.it`s probably Palmer wanting guaranteed game time?