The Express and Star are reporting that Andrew Barrowman has been told he can leaveWalsall.

The former Blues youngster always seemed to be a desperate signing by former Manager Paul Merson, once the club had sold Fryatt, let Leitao go and then missed out on the target named, Lee Peacock.

However, the extraordinary decision by Merson to grant the youngster an 18 month contract, on quite what evidence of talent no one else could see, is yet another example of the then Manager’s profligate ways with a limited budget, one which will cost us now, should we have to pay off Barrowman’s contract.

The news has not, I hasten to add, yet been confirmed by any official source.