Given the player we know he is, and how we’ve seen him perform for us when called upon (everyone sucked against Plymouth), there surely has to be another element to this beyond the manager simply not fancying him. It would be a pretty bleak situation if it was down to paying add ons but not impossible. My suspicions are hidden injury risk, the coach wanting to guarantee other options are acquired in the summer, a touch of stubbornness on Slot’s part. Whatever it is, a waste of a very good footballer.