He has now joined fev on a permanent deal should now be able to play against us I think

He was free to play anyway

I think the important thing about this is that it will free some money up. I expect he was on a good whack which we should now use to strengthen the half backs - possibly Lilley.

Fev already had him for remainder of season. They won’t sign him permanently and have to pay more money unless they get him for longer than this season and it appears they haven’t, he’s still a Fev player until of 2019. There’s no benefit to Fev with this deal. Possibly we have had to officially remove him from our cap to bring someone in but let’s just say we were paying a % of his wages, Fev won’t have taken on the extra liability to get him for rest of season when they already had him for this period.

Maybe the case that they've taken him on permanently to take away the possibility of us recalling him.

Definitely a benefit to fev as can only have so many loan players playing. Now he isn't a loan player they can have an extra one. Spoke to someone at Fev about it and was told that.

I'm sorry but I just don't get this. If Fev have signed him permanently why should we pay any of his wages. It just seems ridiculous to me but of course I am only an old fashioned codger.

Good point re them wanting him permanently to reduce their number of loan players. There has to be some sort of benefit to Fev cos at the moment they’ve not signed him for any longer than they had anyway

Exactly the reason. Fev regularly play their full quota of 5 loan/DR players, and by signing him permanently, he doesn't count on that quota and they can use more Leeds DR guys. Especially while they have Tom Holmes on loan from Hudds too. Same reason that the Jack Ormondroyd and Josh Walters moves were made permanent from Leeds earlier in the season.

Well as he’s signed a permanent deal with them, I wouldn’t be surprised if his good form since joining them drops off