Little Shrimp wrote:I would surprised if Songo'o does leave the club. He seems very much to be DA's man, and if there's an opportunity to take a 'redemption' pathway on the situation (ban, educational course, donate funds to a LGBT+ charity etc) then I expect it would most likely be the option taken.
Going cap in hand to the FA over it will probably mean a less lengthy ban, but it's still going to be at least 6/7 games which is a decent chunk of the season remaining. So it does make sense to bring in some sort of replacement, particularly with Kenyon having struggled a bit with injury recently. Toums has obviously played a deeper midfield role before, but has been more box-to-box recently so it's likely him, Pringle and Lyons will be taking up the more creative responsibilities left by Phillips. Will be interesting to see how we set up Saturday - if there's possibly a change in approach to accommodate for the loss of Phillips.
I would expect a ban to be longer than that, probably closer to ten games, perhaps even twelve.
I'd be surprised and disappointed if he was released, as you say, there are far better routes to redemption.
In the mean time, welcome to Alex. Does sound a bit like our other Alex though?