Sheffield Wednesday striker Jordan Rhodes has had to bide his time this season for game time.
The Scotland international, who joined the Owls for a club-record fee of £8 million in 2017, has struggled for opportunities at Hillsborough.
He was loaned out to Norwich City last season and returned to South Yorkshire over the summer with his future at the club in doubt.
Wednesday boss Garry Monk has said Rhodes will get more opportunities this season, as per the Sheffield Star: “I can only start 11 players and have seven on the bench. The bench is designed around certain positions which you might expect for any different game. You have to make a quick decision.”
“It was quite marginal why Jordan wasn’t in there. He could have quite easily been in that squad. The team and squad have done pretty well since Huddersfield. It is not for the fact that I don’t want Jordan in there. I have got trust in Jordan as well and there will be an opportunity. He has had a couple of opportunities but of course he would want more.”
He added: “I would like to give him more but with the squad that we have there is always going to be one, two or three that miss out. Sometimes they don’t deserve to miss out but it is a numbers thing where you have an 11 and a bench designed as you need it.”
“It can be quite marginal but he is working hard and he knows his role is to be ready when called upon. It is the same as all of them.”
