Stefan Bajcetic‘s position at Salzburg may come into additional query after the Liverpool midfielder was unused of their 5-1 loss to Actual Madrid on Wednesday.
Bajcetic had been anticipated to be recalled from his mortgage at Salzburg this month however, with simply over every week left till the switch window closes, there was no motion to date.
As a substitute the Spaniard has stayed as a part of the squad below new head coach Thomas Letsch, who changed Pepijn Lijnders following his sacking within the winter break.
However Letsch gave a sign of his plans for Bajcetic when he oversaw his first aggressive recreation in cost – a must-win Champions League recreation at Actual Madrid.
The 20-year-old was omitted of the beginning lineup and, with Salzburg struggling a 5-1 defeat that noticed them go 5 targets down earlier than a late comfort, he spent all the recreation on the bench.
Letsch began the in-form duo of Nicolas Capaldo and Mads Bidstrup on the base of his midfield, with Lucas Gourna-Douath changing the previous late on as one in every of 5 substitutions.
Bajcetic was joined in going unused by Bobby Clark, whose £10 million transfer to Salzburg in the summertime has not earned a key position as of but.
The character of their defeat was maybe anticipated, and the end result confirmed Salzburg’s exit from the Champions League after the league section.
They have been one in every of three golf equipment knocked out on Wednesday night time, with Girona and Sparta Prague additionally becoming a member of Bologna, Pink Star Belgrade, Sturm Graz, RB Leipzig, Slovan Bratislava and Younger Boys who had already missed out on the playoffs.
Whether or not Bajcetic will nonetheless be recalled and despatched elsewhere this winter, with Actual Betis among the many golf equipment , stays to be seen.
Bajcetic is barely taking part in
However there needs to be considerations over his taking part in time at Salzburg to date, with solely eight begins in his 18 appearances, clocking 890 minutes on the pitch.
He has solely began as soon as within the Champions League – that being the opening recreation of the league section, a 3-0 loss to Sparta Prague – and solely one of many final six video games within the Austrian Bundesliga.
The departure of Lijnders may function a recent begin, however given the Dutchman’s ties to Bajcetic and Clark it was maybe likelier that he could be given extra alternatives than below a unique head coach.
A lot may change earlier than the switch deadline on February 3, although that Liverpool acted rapidly in cancelling the loans of Calvin Ramsay and Kaide Gordon, and never with Bajcetic, suggests they could possibly be open to permitting him to remain at Salzburg.
