Some harsh things written about Garbutt earlier in the thread. The games he played in the PL last year showed he had the potential to develop into a sound defender, and was the best crosser of the ball from full back that we have. The problems seemed to arise around his contract being due to expire, with Galloway getting ahead of him and taking the opportunity. We lost two promising youngsters at about the same time, Chris Long , John Lundstram who decided not to take up new contracts, most people just shrugged their shoulders and wished them well. Garbutt was different, he had shown genuine class and potential at PL level and there was a danger of us losing him. Hence the fume at the time, if he didn't have talent or unlikely to make it nobody would have cared.
It's hard to tell how successful his current loan at Fulham is. Certainly his early games and then injury meant a poor start . But he's playing regularly now and hopefully benefitting from it. He's 23 later this season so the last thing he needs is another loan spell next season. Assess him alongside BO and Baines in pre season and take it from there, best option would be to keep all three. If we were willing to pay £4mill for that Leeds FB then at worst we should get a reasonable sum for Garbutt, but my inclination is to see how he goes pre season , as he's the type of attacking FB we are always trying to develop.
It's hard to tell how successful his current loan at Fulham is. Certainly his early games and then injury meant a poor start . But he's playing regularly now and hopefully benefitting from it. He's 23 later this season so the last thing he needs is another loan spell next season. Assess him alongside BO and Baines in pre season and take it from there, best option would be to keep all three. If we were willing to pay £4mill for that Leeds FB then at worst we should get a reasonable sum for Garbutt, but my inclination is to see how he goes pre season , as he's the type of attacking FB we are always trying to develop.
