Neither you, nor I know the details of any proposed loan deals - or indeed if there have actually been any offers for him. If he goes, whatever the deal - it's because the powers that be deem it's for the benefit of the club.
I quite like the big, bald grock - but I do know that if he was backing up DCL then he'd have been involved more to do just that.
44 minutes in 5 cameos in the league from 11 games on the bench. He's clearly surplus to requirements.
Well obviously, yeah. I'm not trying to change Marcel Brands' mind here, I'm just putting forward my opinion on a forum, I don't really think the powers that be care all that much what I think.
I never said he was back up to DCL, I'm saying that losing him and not replacing him would just leave us with one less option than we have at the moment, in an area pretty much everybody agrees we're already short in. I don't expect him to start games for us, but I would imagine if he stayed he would get subbed on plenty of times between now and the end of the season. Since he got back from injury we have been behind in 4 games going into the last 10-20 minutes, and he has been subbed on in 3 of those games. When we're chasing a goal we use him, because despite being a very average footballer, he's not bad at putting chances away when they come his way. Ideally we would have options on he bench who are able to stretch teams with their pace, or have the ability to play defence splitting passes, or even just a battering ram who we could launch balls to. As it is we have none of those things, and one of our few options when chasing a game is throwing on Tosun and hoping he gets on the end of something in the box. It's a long way from ideal, but it's something. If he goes then I think some sort of attacking player has to come in to replace that option, whether like for like or offering one of the other things I mentioned, because otherwise the cupboard outside the starting eleven is going to be pretty bare.