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Excellent to see some serious competition for Maty's place. Looked a great prospect when we saw him for a while when we were in the Championship. The question he has to answer is can he improve to Ryan's level with his distribution. I hope this is his main focus in training.

All our competitors down at the wrong end of the table have genuine competition for a goalkeeping place. Button and Steele (or Walton or Sanchez) might be cover in case of injury, but there's no circumstances where they could overhaul Maty. He needs someone breathing down his neck, he went a...

My feeling about Walton, is that he can pluck a few crosses out of the air and clearly he's a big fella and a decent stopper. However, is he a "get on the ball and chip it out to a full back on the touchline" type goalie? I don't think so and I'm strongly under the impression that this is...

I could see Walton going to a Championship club in the summer for about the fee suggested. It would be our first real glimpse of how the business model of the academy works, ie we hope to produce a genuine premier first team player every (realistically) couple of years, but in the mean time, we...