Marc Skinner asked about Elisabeth Terland contract talks ahead of Aston Villa game

“Sorry, no,” he replied, when asked to clear up whether an announcement is imminent regarding Terland. “[I meant] to have been started with the representatives. So the phase was working up to the summer window that we were looking at recruitment in.

“Then you look at during this period here, recruitment in for the winter window, to which we’ve just welcomed, another head of recruitment for us in Matthew Lee.

“So he’s coming in to do that and then during this period, Matt [Johnson] and the team above will be looking at the contracts we want to renew and looking at a plan and structure for those.

“But no, I don’t expect it to be done ASAP, the market is going crazy. Agencies and so on, they will come to a point where hopefully we agree, but they’ll start soon enough.”

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