Steve Bone

He's not looking like he's going to come back to form any time soon, but we hope he does.

Segacic has gone a little bit off the ball from where he was early season.

We haven't mentioned Yang yet, have we?

Yang has gone all of a sudden, which was a... Saving that till last, but let's get on to it because it came out of the blue, didn't it?

It did, didn't it?

Yeah.

I mean, of all the lone players that you would have thought might not be here come the end of January, he was not one of them.

Because you thought, well, he's not, again, he's not like Segacic in a way.

There was a point where he looked the real deal and you thought, yeah, this is going to be a key man to our hopes of success this season.

Scored in successive games, didn't he, against Watford and Middlesbrough.

an assist just after that at Leicester, and then he kind of went off the boil.

There were a couple of games where he was really anonymous, then lost his starting place, come off the bench a few times, been OK, was responsible for the spectacularly great ending against Charlton last week with a nice finish, and it turns out that's the last we've seen of him.

And I'm a bit puzzled by...

the story that and I don't know if this is the official line but obviously he was recalled by Spurs and he's going to Coventry I was a bit puzzled by the line that there were some suggesting that it's because Coventry have promised Spurs he will get more minutes there than he did with us I'd be surprised if Frank Lampard is able to say to Spurs

And if you send him to us, he will play X number of games.

Because how can he say that?

He's got a winning team.

Fair enough, they've had a little blip recently, haven't they?

A couple of defeats, so he wants to freshen it up a bit.

But will any manager give an absolute guarantee to another club that he's going to start a player every week or every other week for the rest of the season when he hasn't seen him in the flesh himself?