Snowflake Royal On a serious point, why would annyone involve Moore in the sqaud / team, with his history of issues and injuries baring in mind he's so obviously out the door in May?
This is a 29 year old player whose performance was declining 2 -3 seasons ago, and has since barely played football in 18 months after a string of injuries that kept him out. Having been injury riddled but playing on prior to that.
He's earning approx 3 times any of our other defenders which raises question marks over resentment given he doesn’t perform better than any of them, if he starts taking places.
At this point, Holmes, Hutchinson and Sarr are all better. McIntyre is at least as good and we have promising young players who would benefit from the bench and cameo appearances like Abbey, Stickland and Clarke. Arguably Yiadom is a better performing centreback this season than Moore was last time he played for us.
By the time Moore is fit, we should also have Holmes, Hutchinson, Sarr, McIntyre, Yiadom, maybe even (LOL) Dann available.
Where is his place? Its no where.
All of the above players have a potential future at the club (except Dann), Moore doesn’t.
I think the biggest issue is keeping them all fit. Hutchinson has already picked up a few injuries so far this season, TMac has had the odd couple of knocks and Dann is never fit, so he is definitely worth using. Moore is also miles ahead of the likes of Abbey, Stickland and co as well, whilst I'd never discount youth, I'd much rather us use Moore, at least until we are safe. Yiadom we could move to RWB as well, he'd just be another option we could feasibly use.
Also being fit, playing games and being involved makes him much more of a sellable asset as well to potentially an MLS club, as has been mentioned. Not sure when their window opens, but if we can't sell him, we may as well use him when he's earning so much.
I think there is a place in the squad for him and whatever happened 12 months ago is history now and we don't know the full story. The club tainted him in pretty bad light, but the club have to take responsibility for their part in all of this as well.
FYI, if moving him on in January means we can keep the likes of Carroll and Mbengue on and offer them a better deal as well as have a free space in the squad for the remainder of the season that we could, in theory, fill, then I'd rather we did that. But I'm not against using him.