Sounds like the Puskas is wrapped up anyway.
McGrath will be staying at Tannadice for the rest of the season. (There had been some speculation that he would be recalled by Wigan, second from bottom in the EFL Championship.) Dundee Utd manager Liam Fox describes him as "outstanding". "I call him low maintenance, high-output and you can't have too many players like Jamie in your squad."
Now back in full training, after a calf injury. (Dundee Courier, 11 Jan)
Some of the usual suspects (The 72, The Realefl, etc) quoting soccer writer Alan Nixon's claim that Hibernian and Fleetwood are interested in McGrath, whose loan club Dundee Utd look likely to be relegated, and whose parent club Wigan are also deep in relegation trouble.
I wonder how low his club career has to descend before other midfield options become tempting for Kenny. There's loyalty and there's blind stubbornness.
True, but if he's not going to play, his inclusion is even more pointless. Hopefully Connell or Azaz or Hodge will get consideration in due course.
In due course yes, Connell hopefully will be in the Championship next season, Hodge needs games somewhere and Azaz even though I like him has been a sub quite a bit for Plymouth, including this weekend when they were playing in the EFL Trophy Final. Theres also Conor Coventry who has been playing in the Championship.
Im not a fan by any means of McGrath but we dont have the competition for places in midfield that we do at the back and are increasing getting in the forwards. I dont think in this squad any midfield player was harshly left out in favor of McGrath. In the next year or 2 hopefully we can leave the likes of McGrath and Hendrick out because other players make it impossible for Kenny to ignore them.
Scored (from play) against Livingston today - the Tangerines clawing their way off the bottom of the SPL!
Seems to do well with Alloa and St Mirren too.
Good to see him bounce back, but Aberdeen's recent record shows - for whatever reason - that he wasn't the right man there. Football can be weird like that I guess.
You need to be the right man at the right club at the right time.
McGrath returns to Wigan Athletic as his loan ends, but is uncertain about his future. " I am not too sure what’s on the horizon for me. Obviously, I didn’t envisage what has happened here this season so I have been trying to get over that in the last few days. Whatever happens in the summer happens, I’ve not really thought about it......I’ll take a few weeks off and then see what’s happening.” (Football Scotland, 30 May). Sounds like he doesn't expect to be called up by Stephen Kenny next month.
McGrath is very supportive of Jim Goodwin, despite Dundee Utd's relegation. But perhaps Shaun Maloney will judge McGrath worth a place in an EFL 1 squad, whereas Leam Richardson didn't think that McGrath was of EFL Championship standard.
It will be a long hard season in League 1 for Wigan if they persist with Maloney.
Keane O'Shea Given Best Smallbone
Contract terminated by Wigan today....
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Technically he terminated his contract rather than the other way around.
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