Its going to be strange from now on without our mainstay of 300 games and captain Matt Grimes.
I can’t believe the hierarchy here were willing to let him go, and rubbing salt in the wound to another Championship club of similar standing.
Whether he wanted to go or not, he was on a long term contract with us, was the best paid player at the club and has left us in the lurch at the worst possible time, with only a few days to get a replacement in before the transfer window closes, thanks Matt. We made you a multi-millionaire during your stay here and this is the thanks we get, a kick in the teeth. If he really wanted to go it should have been at the end of the season.
Also what has happened that he suddenly asked for a transfer, is there’s something going gone on at the club that we don’t know about.
Anyway, moving on, our leader has just splashed Grimes’ transfer fee on Danish midfielder Melker Widell and, unbelievably, as part of the deal he’s being loaned back to selling club Aalborg for the rest of the season! We needed him now not in six months time!
The transfer window closes on Monday Feb 3 at 11pm, we have only the weekend to get reinforcements in with the nightmare scenario of an inexperienced Chairman, working on his own, making all the decisions, to try and bring players in.