Rumours were that we were favourites to get Travers in on loan.
Bournemouth have a new owner with money to spend, they now have 3 gk's and were abroad last week, if it were to happen then we should hear something this week.
I'm sure Rowett will pick the best gk available to him on August 5th
Think we were all surprised last season when (for no reason we could think of at the time), Rowett suddenly dropped Bart and replaced him with Long! As the season went on, and Long copped a fair bit of flack for mistakes he made in goal, it didn’t seem enough for Rowett to drop Long and reinstate Bart, so in that respect it would seem only natural for Rowett to want to start the new season with Long as his No. 1. If that is still the case, where has all this talk come from about Long potentially leaving? From SM? The club? The player?
Haven’t seen or read anything that Long himself wants to leave, so he must be happy (as must Rowett) to go into this season as first choice keeper, and not be thinking of leaving to ply his trade at a lower division club! It’s interesting on the OS squad page that Long, in the goalkeeping section, is the 1st photo, with Connal Trueman the 2nd photo, and Bart as the 3rd photo! Is that how Rowett sees the line up order of his 3 keepers now? I understand moving Bart down the pecking order to No. 3 spot (due to his age) but if Rowett is still happy with Long as his No. 1, and happy to move Trueman up, why does he feel the need to get another keeper (Travers) in on loan, especially if Trueman and Bart aren’t going anywhere? Would Travers be happy to come in as a No. 2 or No. 3 keeper? I shouldn’t think so!
The only reason I can think of getting Travers in, is if Rowett is now having second thoughts about Long as his No. 1, whilst also realising that Bart is now too old, and that for some reason he can’t trust Trueman to step up to the No. 1 spot! Otherwise, what is the point of paying out a proportion of high wages to Bournemouth for their keeper, if we won’t be seeing him in the No. 1 position this season?