Franco

[Ronald Parp]

Which is the point. The club can tell Sheehan that we're not actively looking to sell him all they like, but if a big enough offer comes in then he's off. AS knows this as much as anyone else does. As in the Darling situation, what can the club possibly promise/reassure Sheehan on that? We've talked to HD about a new deal but could still easily be blown out of the water by someone else.

Slightly unrelated but it reminds me of one of things where Sheehan is untested. Obviously he ticks the boxes so far in terms of analysing the opposition, setting a team up, motivation, etc, but player recruitment is a different beast. I’m sure he’s well known enough in the game to have contacts and we have team of people working on it but I would have thought players walking out of the door this summer and their replacements would be top of his list of reservations if he was to be offered the job. Franco going would be a blow to him and it could take two or three windows to get that kind of quality on the pitch again.