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Of course they would but do you think OG would select them to play? - If OG didn't put them in the squad would you then claim they had refused to play? - To do so would be just as ridiculous as claiming that LB has refused to play - he hasn't, OG did not select him!

It is the club who are not asking LB to play, not the other way around, so it is perfectly reasonable that the club has to honour its contract and pay LB's wages. If I have a contract with a company to carry out certain work and they decide that they don't want me to do it then I would rightly...

I'm sure that if LB doesn't leave during this window then he will play as well as he possibly can for the rest of the season - the problem is that, as you have pointed out, if he is 'distracted' then his best could well be of a lower standard than previously. Football at the level we are...

Quite

As unfortunately will the club as they see his value plummet

But there is no suggestion he didn't turn up for work, (or chose not to play) - he wasn't selected - OG could have selected him to play if he'd wanted to. Some of the hyperbole on this thread is ridiculous. Those who are trying to make comparisons of Bridcutt's attitude to their own jobs...

I doubt that LB has been paid in total, over the 3 odd years he has been with us, the amount the club was offered by Sunderland - in essence he hasn't cost us a penny and we've had the benefit of his skills during that period.

Not the only one :)