[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Why on earth did we led Butcher go when the guy he is back up for is injured? From what I can work out, Randall is now the only senior Central Midfielder we have available for the Leeds FA cup game.
Surely we could have waited to Houghton was back and the cup game was gone, and then released Butcher at that point - as it was a 'release and sign' scenario the transfer window doesn't apply [you aren't barred from signing free transfers.
Unless there's a Championship quality midfielder without a contract that we are going to sign, hard to see what chance we have against Leeds.