Any word on Spector coming back from Charlton? I honestly cant see why not. Everyone else that has been put at LB either hasnt been a real LB or has been utter sh1te. Fergie might as well try and bring him back. Even though hes not even getting many minutes at Charlton as is, I think he could at least provide something. Opinions?
I don't think he's ready yet...if he isn't managing to hold down a regular place at Charlton I would question whether he is ready for first team action with us. He's better off on the Charlton bench than with our reserves IMO.
Honestly Spector got a bad break with the early injury but had fought back through that. He's earned a starting spot at Charlton, but they recently suffered a 4 goal shellacking and the manager wanted to make an example out of someone. Despite one or zero of those goals being Spectors fault (depending upon how you blame Spector, the center back or goal keeper for that goal), Spector became the scape-goat for that debacle. The manager dropped him to get his team's attention. Unfortunate, but I'd think the manager realizes Spector is one of his best defenders and will put Spector back on the field again soon. I actually expect Spector to get a lot of valuable playing time for Charlton in 2006, so I'd rather he not be recalled this season. -Digital
Chris Powell is the starting LB for Charlton btw...like I said he would be at the beginning of the season...Curbishley is going with what he knows.
I was excited when O'Shea and Richardson were in the team w/ Silvestre and no Smith, I assumed FINALLY Richardson in Central midfield, where he belongs, only to see him at Left Back, caught in the confusion on the Speed goal.
Like most of you have already said, there's no need to recall him and quite frankly from what I've seen of him at Charlton he wouldn't be much better than Richardson.
The citeh match seems to be his undoing. I watched the game where three of the four goals were scored by balls splitting the CB's and the other was scored by Sinclair who beat Spector on the dribble. Then his shot from an acute angle squirmed under Kiely(who should have saved it) ended up being the difference in the match. Then the game after that the goals they gave up against Wigan were terrible and Spector wasn't even in the squad.
Would that be allowed? Like if someone is on loan to another club, can his actual club recall him at any time, or does he have to remain at the loan club for the agreed-upon period? I should probably know this already.
I think you can put a clause into the loan agreement saying that he can be recalled before the loan agreement is up, but I'm not sure if its anytime or just during transfer windows that they can be recalled.