Pedro Caixinha has axed SIX of Mark Warburton’s duds from his Europa League glory bid.
Twelve months ago Rob Kiernan, Andy Halliday, Matt Crooks, Harry Forrester, Michael O’Halloran and Joe Dodoo were leading the #goingfor55 but now find themselves on the Sevco scrapheap.
Caixinha has been ruthless in his dealing with the squad and appears not to be giving any consideration to making his surplus players sell-able.
Most managers would try to keep players involved to a certain extent to make them more attractive to other clubs.
By dumping the players totally out of his plans and excluding them from first team training facilities it’s unlikely that there will be a stampede for their services.
Halliday, O’Halloran, Crooks and Dodoo are all under contract until 2020 and highly unlikely to be offered similar terms elsewhere meaning that a loan move with a contribution towards paying the wages the best hope that Sevco have of reducing costs.