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I don’t want to be a pessimist, but an away European tie against Italian opposition isn’t the ideal sounding game if you’re wanting to get your goal-scoring mojo back. Please let him make me eat this post 🙏

I know our recruitment system is on a whole different level, but I'm fairly sure that the scouting of every other professional club in the world goes a little bit further than watching MOTD and the players that the pundits choose to focus on. Apart from Chelsea.

That was an outrageously hard strike for the first goal. The 'keeper would've seen it slightly late, but apart from that he was just completely done for pace.

‘Is he good enough to be playing for a top-six side?’ Someone needs to have a look at the league table.

He’s only played 540 mins (equivalent of 6 games) and has already got 4. With the Albion havinf another 49 PL fixtures to play before his 20th, I’d be disappointed if he didn’t smash 14 and get well into the 20s!

Never mind these pesky £50m+ transfer fees for your players. Much better to have your PotS return to his club one summer, followed by the best player in your club’s history leaving on a free 12 months later.

No. He signed a 3.5 year contract back in October. Tribunals are only for when young players leave without a contract.

Came on against Leicester for 10 mins as well. Can understand why he’s not getting much game time; which attacking players is getting dropped from the current starting 11?

Certainly an interesting opinion on a man that gave Premier League debuts to: Connolly, Alzate, Lamptey, Sanchez, Caicedo, Mac Allister, Khadra, Sarmiento and van Hecke. And he also gave Ferguson himself his first-team debut in cup competitions.

Can you loan out a player before his 18th? Anyway, one to be patient with. Connolly scored for fun in the U23s but wasn't able to make the huge step up in one go, so hopefully lessons will have been learned.

It’s 2m extra for every position higher in the table. Like you say, it’s significant and the result could make a difference of 4-6m given how congested it sometimes gets in mid table.

Let’s not get overly facetious about the club’s development pathway just because it’s usually a long-term thing. Recent experience suggests it’s the way to do it: On one hand, there’s Connolly who went straight from the U23s into the senior squad and has regressed since making an impact in his...