Fat Dan on Lions TV reckons we’ve already signed a left back on a free transfer whose contract ends June 30th 2023.
Someone in his comments section reckons the left back is George Cox. I Googled him and guess who he plays for?
Fortuna Sittard!
Reckon old Zian has had a word in Rowett’s shell like and given him the heads up! That obviously ties in with the rumour that Rowett has been looking at players in the Netherlands.
Cox is 25, 5’6 tall and can also play left sided midfield.
Fat Dan reckons we won’t go for Styles because he still has 3 years left on his contract, and the Barnsley chairman won’t let him go on the cheap, so better to spend what he thinks we’d have to spend on Styles (£2.5M) and use that money to buy Travis, and get Cox in on a free transfer.
Millwall have so far put in 4 bids for Travis, with the last bid reported to have been upped to £2.5M which Blackburn have still rejected. Will Rowett up the bid again to £3M, and is this player really that good (and is he really going to change our midfield fortunes round if we sign him), for us to part with the most we would ever have paid for a player, in the club’s 138 year history?
Wouldn’t it be better (and get more bang for our buck), if we could spend that £2.5M - £3M on getting in another attacking midfielder, and possibly a player in another position (maybe another forward as cover for either Bradshaw or Nisbet), as opposed to just buying this Travis bloke? £2.5M - £3M is a lot to spend on a player who’ll be 26 this October, especially if he ends up not working out for us!