Luke O’Brien has underlined his desire to remain at “his” club City.

O’Brien is desperate to earn a new deal after scoring his first goal at Valley Parade.

But he admitted that contract talks are on hold until manager Peter Taylor’s own position is decided.

O’Brien said: “Nobody knows if the gaffer is going to be here next season or not. That’s up to him.

“But there are a lot of players out of contract, myself included, and everything is still up in the air. We are all playing for our future.

“I want to stay, of course I do. This is my club. I’ve been here since I was a little lad and I don’t want to think about playing for someone else.

“But it all depends on who the manager is. A new one might come in and bring in 15 to 20 different players.

“We’ve just got to focus on the three remaining games, hopefully do well in them and then see what happens.”

O’Brien came off the bench to spark the fightback against Barnet on Saturday, scoring the equaliser within four minutes of getting on the pitch.

He also had a part in the injury-time winner for fellow substitute Michael Flynn on his return from injury – though the visitors claimed it should have been ruled out for offside.

O’Brien admitted: “From where I was, it did look offside, but it was another good finish from Flynny.

“Plenty of teams have done it to us where we’ve been leading and snatched a late goal.

“The first half was nowhere near what we want and the gaffer had a word at half-time. I thought we were the better team after that and had plenty of chances.”

Taylor “didn’t know and didn’t care” whether Flynn was offside when he fired past goalkeeper Jake Cole in the third minute of added time.

The City boss said: “We deserved to score. It wasn’t a great performance and was very patchy but fair play to the players for keeping going.

“I’m delighted for Luke to score his first goal at home. He’ll be well chuffed with that.

“And if there’s an opportunity going to drop in the box, you’re very happy if Michael Flynn’s there.”