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And those stats put him 22nd best in the Championship last year whereas Norwood was 2nd, ergo a far superior player. Stats can be used to prove anything.

However Norwood does.

Too many wayward passes, frequently caught out of position, poor goals per shots ratio, drifted in and out of too many games, too many rash challenges. How opinions can differ.

Very much this. The 3 players you've mentioned were head and shoulders above Stephens in terms of ability and effectiveness. I don't get all the angst about him leaving, he's nowhere near being the stand out player in our squad and has never been a rock solid dependable midfielder, he's not...

True but that will already be factored in to the club's calculations. A truism I know but any opinion posted here will only represent a relatively small fraction of the whole picture, if even that.