Joao Carvalho

[stirred]

I read it as we finished the game without a player like Carvalho, ie there was no natural Freeman replacement, and we need to think about why. And that maybe it wasn’t his decision, or at least not just a footballing decision. (Although would Johnson be suitable?).

I saw a Tayls response in the Q&A: “My Reading of the situation is very definitely not that Lamouchi has any kind of personal agenda with Carvalho. He says himself it has been a club decision to have him train away with the rest of the squad. It feels to me like this has become a financial decision as much as a football one.”

Not sure how that benefits anyone, unless there has been an offer that the club were agreeable to but Carvalho turned down, cos he’d rather stay as sub.

We don’t have a payment triggered with another appearance or anything like that do we?

Time will tell I guess.