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So we've got more injuries then that we're not currently aware of by the looks of it! We lost Clark, can't remember if anyone else seemed to be carrying knocks but not sounding good again in the injuries, at least in the short term.Re Lowe and McBurnie’s availability, “I’d say no. Day by day with Lowe as it can soon clear up, with the ribs’
Re Clarke, who has had a scan today, “I’m expecting him to be out”, though the gaffer hasn't seen the results yet. “Flecky is working hard and we can get him out soon. He’s making steps”
Jack O’Connell, with him out of contract in the summer, will he play again for United? “We all want him to, fans, Jack, me. But we are also well aware of how complicated the injury was. The amount of surgeries he has had, there is no pressure on him from us. It’s no fault of Jacks. Nothing we can do about it. We just want him to work hard, get something out of every day. He’s a tough lad and has the mental strength to make it and has our support”
Interestingly, Hecky said that when he was the gaffer in the Premier League, Jack was back in training and was “close”, but then had to have further surgeries. He has been back on the grass at times, but is not at the momement
So reading between the lines, no, we won’t see the brick-header again for the Blades
It’s early in the transfer window, but when asked if there has been any intertest in any of the players, Hecky said ”no”.
Re Fleck and Rangers, he hasn’t heard anything
Re Fleck, Stevens, Norwood, Robinson, whose contracts end in the summer, Hecky understands that they are playing for the club, but playing for themselves as well. “You are always playing for yourself. I’m sure their agents are talking to other clubs.” He said once everything is sorted with the club ownership, he will be looking to lock in contracts.
Re Khadra, when asked if he expects him to leave by the end of the month, he said “yes”, then went on to say “Reda would like to go and we have had a conversation with Brighton”. He also said he wants to bring someone in and “that’s the difficulty I’ve got” in terms of he would like to not reduce the attacking squad size. He did confirm that William Osula may be the person to fill the gap in the squad to ease any pain of Khadra going. Hecky wants Will to get more game time and see where he is. He also said he’s not necessarily going to go back out on loan. "He’s trained well today".
Re Jebbo and QPR being as good as we’ve seen him play this season, “He’s still a baby and he will get better, but we will openly say to him, it’s up to you now. He’s back from his ankle injury and trained really well every day. We are pleased with him. When you work that hard your teammates will be pleased with you”.
When asked, are you close to any incomings, “No”
Re Millwall and whether you go with a kindergarten 11, how do you approach it. “No, we go as strong as we can. Picked up a couple of injuries the other night and have a few carrying things, but apart from that we go as strong as we can.” We will rotate as we have done on other games in this busy period.
Millwall is a massive test. “They’re strong, they’re up there and I expect them to stay up there”.
A couple of minutes of Millwall wankfest followed.
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Body language said to me that he quite likes the FA Cup. Had a “let’s fucking have it” twinkle in his eye. “I always want to win the games. Other people’s focus is on different things. My focus is on Millwall. Pick a team to win the game”
UTB!!
If he does know something( which I assume he does) he wouldn't be allowed to say anything I would suspect
I know I'm frustrated as a fan, but that's not unusual as we can't know what we want to know and that's the nature of being a fan. But the injuries are a real frustration in combination to struggling to bring players in because we're skint/the owners don't want to put any more in/the new owners are doing it....who knows! From that interview I'm not at all confident that a new player will be coming in, it's not like we're midtable and not likely to go up is it?! In my view, and many others, we need an extra forward, we're seeing Middlesbrough bring in Archer on loan and Preston matching the offer, we on the other hand are not close to bringing anyone in and we're overplaying Billy as a result.
The loan fee will be the issue in part and the other bit will be that Khadra's wages are likely to not be that high whereas we may be going for someone with much higher wages. We'll end up with someone like Lyle Taylor on loan from Forest who's not kicked a ball all season for their first team at Forest; I'm calling that now since we'll not be able to get anyone else! The likes of Surridge and Adam Armstrong no chance. That's how it seems anyway.
It wasn't said for months though that Khadra was going back because obviously no one would know, apart from within the club as January approached I would assume. So to only have Sharp and Ndiaye as our only fit and experienced strikers is not good enough for a team going for promotion in my view. Even if McBurnie is fit we need another and I don't see Osula filling the role or Jebbo yet as they're both "babies" to quote Hecky himself. They may have a good game/cameo here and there but we need more experience off the bench like we had with Hogan and Madine the last time we got promoted.
Me too, and we usually win there.
There's a good energy in them.
You're totally right Stretch but how many times have we seen United define logic for short term gain/keeping a tight ship. Still smarting all these years later at selling Kyle Walker for £4m; he'd only played a handful of games at the end of the day!
You're not alone - I'm thinking that about Berge too...... Typical blade over-reaction I hope.
Blimey . You reckon he's off to Rangers? They couldn't afford him. They paid south of £20m for their record signing and McB would score for fun in that league.
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