Can't afford to leave ourselves with three (or possibly two) available strikers. We may have just about got away with it so far this season, but it would be madness to adopt it as policy.
Fair point. Where does that leave Ben White, though, another very promising youngster?
'Loaning' is the key word here, perhaps? We do play young loanees in our first team (Brown, Tomori, Akpom (shudder), etc.) but players who are actually ours do seem to go into a sort of Bermuda Triangle of...
Only 20, so DS, Shirley?
If he is coming in to allow CG to go out on loan, he's perhaps more likely to be a replacement - or a rival at least - for CG's place; he is five years younger after all, and I think we were expecting an old hand to come in (probably on loan) if it was solely for the...