Town boss Paul Lambert has revealed that owner Marcus Evans is set to speak to left-back Jonas Knudsen about a new contract. The 26-year-old’s current terms are up in the summer and, speaking to the Danish media earlier in the week, said he was yet to hear anything from the Blues about a new deal.
Previous manager Paul Hurst had said in the summer that no contract offer would be forthcoming until Knudsen had shown him he was worth one but Lambert has seen enough in his short time involved to recommend that the six-times-capped Danish international be offered new terms.
Lambert met with Evans and Lee O’Neill, who we understand has taken on a more general football operations role at the club while continuing as academy director, at Playford Road on Monday.
"I don’t view it like that,” Lambert said when the situation under the previous manager was outlined to him.
"I spoke with Jonas today, obviously I knew his contract is up. Marcus is going to speak to him anyway and try to sort things out there.
"I don’t judge anything by what happened before, I can only see Jonas over the last few weeks and he’s been very, very good.
"He’s a Danish international and has played a lot of games in the Championship, so I recommended when I spoke to Marcus and Lee that he’s one of the lads they should speak to.”
Lambert says no one else’s contract situation needs to be addressed immediately: "Not really because everybody’s quite secure. Other than Jonas coming out of contract, I think Teddy Bishop’s out of contract and he’s just coming back. Jonas is the main one, but everyone else is settled.”