Shame, but gonna make sacrifices if we’re really in such a limited financial spot. Bye Jairo, thanks for everything, hope you have a good career.

Trust in Roy.

Doesn't make sense to me. A 22 year old defensive midfielder for a 27 year old forward (both born in September). I think we are more in need of a versatile defender than a forward given our other options. That still means finding another defender.

We’ve got Kouyate, who’s best at centre back according to most spammers I’ve seen. That means Tomkins, Sakho, Kouyate, Kelly and Dann if he recovers okay at center back. Ward and Aaron at right back, PVA and Schlupp at left back. Really don’t see how we need any more defensive additions.

Jairo is on £60k a week, I don't know if Ayew will be coming in on less money but for the former, that is too much.

Would be disappointed to see him leave permanently though.

See this as us rating Kirby higher than Jairo and not wanting to block his path

Can only be a loan why would he go there.

There's cover if we sign Kouyate. I'd be sad to see Riedewald go as it's nice to have young players coming through but it makes sense in terms of squad balance if we're signing Meyer too.

I'll admit I don't have much of a clue about Kouyate or Ayew, who only seems to turn up against us, but it just doesn't feel right. Maybe for nailed on 1st teamers but not otherwise.

So as I was saying a few days ago that I wasn't convinced Roy rates Jairo that much, and this suggests so.

I like to hope so, but if Williams doesn't go out on loan and we get both Meyer and Kouyate, Kirby will be still be at least 6th in line for a midfield spot.

Wow really? This says £40k and looks fairly accurate but may exclude bonuses:
https://sillyseason.com/salary/cryst...alaries-99595/

Goes to show how the Championship can be a money pit if you want to compete.

Whoever sanctioned £60k is off their meds. I like him though and would prefer a loan but if it means getting better players in then needs must.

You might be right.

Odd that he was praising Jairo in the media up until quite recently. He also praised Chungy in the media towards the end of last season. Maybe that's clever man management/transfer strategy stuff.

Yeah but he needed to compliment him just to give him confidence I guess, keep him feeling wanted but yes, also make other clubs hear good things about him (makes sense if you are looking to off-load the player). Also, after that praise he still rarely played him, even for a few minutes at the end of games.

He wasn't used very much really - we all have different ideas of what being used much was - that's normal. I don't consider it very much, considering Roy often finished with the same side.
2 starts and 4 sub appearances in the final 5 months of the season isn't very much to me!

So Personally I don't think that showed he had much faith in him. His decision to move him on now and replace him with Kouyate suggests that was the case.

Yes and as I pointed out, Roy didn't use him much from the bench and for a couple of games even dropped him from the bench. So what's your point?

I thought that might suggest he didn't have much faith in Jairo, many others on here thought he did. Today's news suggests that he wants to replace him with Kouyate. And despite Jairo's potential to improve, personally I think it is a wise move as I haven't been convinced by him since day 1. But who knows, maybe he will move on and do really well at Swansea.

I think he would do really well at Swansea.

I'm sure whoever is coming in will be on more than Jairo.

Daft if True