Bilic talks Adrian

Slaven Bilic has revealed there has been little communication between himself and goalkeeper Adrian over recent weeks as the clamour for him  to bring the Spaniard back into the team grows.

Randolph has been in awful form over recent weeks culminating in a near horror show at Sunderland last weekend.

However, the manager – unless he is on bluffing and double bluffing- appears to be unmoved in his resolution to stick with Randolph.

He is hard to read at times but has admitted to not speaking with Adrian recently saying:  “We’ve spoken a few times, not in the last couple of weeks but when I decided to drop him to give Randy a chance.

“Then, after that, we have spoken a couple of times about his future.

“Adrian is a great professional and he never dropped his level in training one bit. I told him he had to wait for his chance and that is exactly how it is.”

That follows his comments that after last weeks game that he doesn’t like changing keepers on a “game to game basis.”