As regular readers will know Vital Wednesday and Vital Football have been through a couple of changes in the last few months.
Top men like Ed and many others have moved on as life gets in the way of sitting in front of a communications device, typing educated and very readable nonsense (I think I can say that!) and having a laugh about the club they all love and in the midst of that we’ve changed servers, had fresh website frontpages and even have access to new swanky forums should we wish to use them.
For now, we can stick to article comments!
I’ve moved from doing match stats and the odd article to keeping the site ticking over and this weekend Mr Pursehouse got back in touch and has already begun revitalising our @VitalWednesday Twitter feed.
Having commented about the price of beer as he slipped back into his rhythm, the fact that goalkeeper Keiren Westwood was again missing from the teamsheet – even as a substitute – for Jos Luhukay’s selection against Villareal as we played our final pre-season game with the Championship campaign now breathing down our necks, he wondered what Owls fans thought about his future.
As covered previously, with Luhukay mentioning injury to the local press as he missed out on the previous friendly and the Republic of Ireland stopper disputing that, plenty wondered if there had been a fallout and whether it now implied a transfer was the only option.
Hot topic of debate in the pub after the match; Keiren Westwood! #SWFC
— Vital Wednesday (@VitalWednesday) July 28, 2018
As a result, I think that’s pretty categorical.
Whether it plays out that way remains to be seen, but it doesn’t take much of an educated guess to assume that his omission from yesterday’s squad was at best a reaction to him contradicting Luhukay on social media.
Time will tell, and the transfer window shuts soon enough, as to whether or not this is an indication of us trying to move him on – because from the players own words.
🤔💭I missed 1 training session last Thursday.I’m not injured and haven’t been all preseason. Thanks to everyone who messaged me with concern but I’m grand 🙂 Missing one training session since the 18th June proves I’m 100% not injured 👍🏻 I’m Stronger&Fitter than iv ever been! https://t.co/wosPLF6Jzv
— Keiren Westwood (@WestwoodKeiren) July 25, 2018
You have to heavily read into his final comments about being ‘stronger and fitter’ than ever before to think he’s angling for a move of his own cognisance.
Me too but fear his time is up. Huge wages and an ego to match, doesn’t fit into the Luhukay philosophy.
— Vital Wednesday (@VitalWednesday) July 28, 2018
We'll rue losing him, while keeping Jones and Fox on the books – they're awful – lose those 2, and chalk a line under Abdi & we shouldn't need to clear him out! Dawson out on loan for the season – would balance things easily without losing our cutting edge players
— Dazzler (@bigdazowl) July 28, 2018
