The bad news; Carew’s agent has apparently been saying that the big Norwegian will be out until spring, which of course is fuel to the fire for transfer window rumour mongers. Of course we’ll definitely have to swoop for a striker now Carew won’t be back any time soon, right??

Well not so fast there, MON has denied that it’s that bad. But then he would, wouldn’t he. Knowing we’re short of a striker will potentially drive the price up of anyone MON chases, or so the conventional wisdom goes.

But there is a silver lining to this cloud… I mentioned at the end of this transfer rumour post that gossip has been floating around that our John isn’t all that injured, has actually fallen out with the manager and will be off this month. So if that were true, a story about his injury getting worse, or not healing as expected, isn’t the way to go about engineering a move away now is it??

Right, that’s that nonsense put to bed then!!