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Not a direct replacement no but I can’t see us paying 8m for a player and then he is not even in the match day squad like Norwich. We would want to play him and something would have to give. As it happens I don’t think we have been so dependent on Stephens this season so we could have let him...

Totally agree but as things have turned out he would have made up the numbers. Last season my fear was that we would struggle without Stephens and Keyal in midfield. This season, not so much.

I think it’s fair to assume Dale still wants away. Pretty sure that TB said at a fans forum that we kept him because Burnley were too late with an acceptable offer, not allowing us time to get in a replacement. When he said that I assumed he meant, if we had got Pritchard he, Stephens, would...