Daily Catch Up - Friday 18 January

“You always like to play against your old team and Ruben has been in fine form.
“He has linked up play well and he has been able to get a few goals to his name, which is vital.

“This is the best form he has been in of his career. He has been given that added responsibility to score goals and create assists.
He can open up opposition defences, he’s a dribbler and he does see through passes very well.”

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“Ruben is a good player and I sort of agonised about what I was going to do with him.
“He’s my type of player – a really good player – but I just felt that in League Two and him being the type of player he is and person that he is, someone who wants to play at the highest level, like everyone really.

“He had the opportunity and, talking to him, you could tell that he wanted to stay in League One, and that’s what he has done.
“But he’s a good player and it’s no surprise that he’s weighed in with some goals.

“And he’ll be confident but also really up for this game because he will want to prove a point, I suppose.
“Although there’s no point to prove really because I didn’t release him because I didn’t think he was a good player.

“He went because he wanted to play at that level and I felt that it was an opportunity for us to go down a different route and plan the way we did.
“It’s worked out for us and it has worked out for him, so everything is good on that front.”

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