Relevant;
on whether Reiss Nelson will go out on loan…
I think they all realise the competition we have in forward positions. I’ve already spoken with Reiss about it and I really like the way he’s training. I think we both agree about how much he’s improved in the last few months and he’s going to carry on pushing himself and the rest of the team. He needs to be ready because in football, unfortunately, or fortunately, things don’t take three months to change, it can take three minutes and you have to be ready when that opportunity comes.
on whether Reiss Nelson needs to be playing regularly to really progress…
I think if you ask any of those 27 players if they need to play, they will all say ‘Yes, of course. I need to play regularly and I need minutes.’ But at the moment it’s just not possible playing one game a week and with this rule of just being able to have 18 players, it’s very difficult to give everyone the same minutes - impossible.
Sounds like he wants to keep him to be honest, certainly doesn’t read like he’s a player we want to sell. I think it would be a huge mistake to sell Nelson, and I’m on the fence about a loan too. Yeah he needs to game time, but I think he needs good coaching even more, and most managers are not going to waste their time developing a loan player. But it all depends on the state of the squad come October, I may be that we HAVE to loan him out.
