Exclusive: Irons squad member out in the cold!

Exclusive

Morgan Amalfitano is still out in the cold with manager Slaven Bilic and continues to train with the Under 21 squad despite getting a first team squad number!.

The boss exiled the midfielder to the Development Squad on disciplinary grounds after it emerged the Frenchman missed a team meeting.

Amalfitano was also reported by many media outlets as having given the manager attitude when Bilic questioned him about his absence..

And the outcome was that the manager banned the 30 year old training ground at Chadwell Heath and was later reported as saying: “I have to protect the team.”

The reports added him as saying: “My first job is to protect the team and keep them as a unit. If I feel that someone is damaging it in that way I have to react and I have done that. 

It  was quiet meeting between the two of us. I had to do it to keep the harmony. He’s not back training with the first-team. He’s not in the first-team anymore.”

It was believed that his inclusion in the first team squad had seen the two  bury their differences but ClaretandHugh learned this morning that is not the case.

A highly placed source told us that the midfielder continues to train with the youngsters and there had been no solution to the problem

He explained that Matt Jarvis’ departure ftom the club was the only reason that Amalfitano would not have been named in the squad..

We were told exclusively:” We have 25 players and under the rules you have to allocate. Had we not loaned out Matt Jarvis he would have been  in the squad and Morgan wouldn’t.”