EFL star REFUSES to show as much as a sport amid switch hypothesis… as head coach slams ahead’s ‘mentality’

Plymouth winger Morgan Whittaker refused to play in his aspect’s defeat at Burnley amid hypothesis over his future on the membership. 

Whittaker has scored 33 objectives in 103 appearances for the Pilgrims since his £1million transfer from Swansea in 2023. 

Nevertheless, the 24-year-old’s future at House Park is doubtful, with Burnley and Hull among the many golf equipment reportedly eager to signal him this month.

Whittaker has additionally been linked with the likes of Lazio, Atalanta, Rangers and Premier League sides, together with Brentford, in current instances. 

The ahead – who scored the winner in Argyle’s FA Cup shock in opposition to Brentford this month – fuelled the hypothesis when he didn’t make the squad for Wednesday’s 5-0 residence loss to Burnley. 

And, talking after the sport, head coach Miron Muslic astonishingly revealed that he chosen Whittaker to characteristic however claimed the ahead refused to show up. 

‘We want gamers who actually wish to play for Argyle so we will all the time come to them once we want gamers, who’re prepared to present all the pieces,’ he stated. 

‘I do know he is a goal and linked with transfers. He was out there in the present day, he was within the choice and he wasn’t there.

‘So, it is what I stated once more, we have to change this mentality, we have to change the locker room, we have to get characters inside with the will to face this problem and to present all of it, that is our solely method and our solely probability.’

Muslic elaborated: ‘He was within the choice, and that is all the pieces I’ve to say. 

‘Morgan is an Argyle participant below contract right here so long as no one has paid the cash we as an organisation demand, to pay his worth.

‘He is an Argyle participant and he has tasks and obligations to Argyle and like I stated, that is one of many explanation why Argyle is struggling for the final months.

‘Morgan did not present up, he was within the choice. We had a sport in the present day, he was within the choice, he wasn’t there, and that is all the pieces I’ve to say on Morgan.’ 

Plymouth suffered a heavy defeat in opposition to the Clarets, with Zian Flemming and Josh Laurent each netting braces earlier than Josh Cullen added a fifth in a rampant first half. 

Muslic, who changed Wayne Rooney as head coach this month, faces an enormous activity to maintain Plymouth within the Championship, with the aspect nonetheless rooted to the underside and 6 factors adrift of security.