Muslic lauds Whittaker focus despite transfer talk

Plymouth Argyle head coach Miron Muslic says Morgan Whittaker is focused on helping the club, rather than leaving it.

The highly-rated 24-year-old forward has drawn interest in the last few transfer windows.

Burnley and Hull City have been linked with a bid for Whittaker this month, with the former Derby County and Swansea City man scoring a fine goal to knock Premier League side Brentford out of the FA Cup last week.

But Muslic, who replaced Wayne Rooney as head coach last Friday, says while Whittaker is ambitious, he is focused on helping the club out of the Championship relegation zone.

"It's not about how much I want to keep him at the club, it's also about what's the best for Morgan," he said.

"He's a fantastic football player. He is the player who can have one individual moment and decide the game for us. That's quality. Normally those guys cost a lot of money.

"I think the Brentford goal, that's what you get with Morgan, he can just finish the game for you or kill your opponent.

"That makes him super-interesting, I think, for a lot of other clubs and I think he's ambitious enough to also realise that he wants to take the next step.

"I like players who have ambitions and we will see then what's the best for Morgan and what's the best for us.

"Right now I consider him fully, fully as an Argyle player. Everything I saw so far over the last three or four or five days - very professional.

"One talk between us wasn't about moving or a transfer, it was about being ambitious, achieving goals, what we can achieve right now."