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I really think he'll be an 8 for now. Maybe his biggest strength going forward currently is carrying the ball, compared to his passing. Would be a waste of that asking him to sit and be more positionally disciplined.

Think this is fair just because of how youth development goes. There's no real way to say for sure until a player is regularly in the first team - and even then, for example Davies looking like he'd be a world beater vs City and then never quite kicking on beyond that. I'm very optimistic about...

Probably yeah, I doubt the club even have him earmarked as a potential sale for 2026 - he's just signed a new contract and will be at the bottom of his market value with an injury hit season. Ndiaye will be the one they're thinking about if they want a big injection of cash next summer as that...

Be interested to watch this!

Hahahahaha

Yep he's still great at ball carrying.

- when you're a complete eye-test purist and your own eyes are so untrustworthy as to be tricked into thinking a player is a headless chicken just because they're hard-working

He gave Ngakia 5 games at RB when he was 19 in early 2020. As far as I can tell, that's literally the only time in his entire career

Totally. Obviously you'd love to have the first team 'sorted' as well, but there's no reason to wait to throw 8m at a development signing if the opportunity presents itself. It didn't stop us from doing anything else.

Whether you think this or not it shouldn't be based on whether an £8m 19 year old defender has made an impact already or not. We should be getting probably one player like that per year in the hopes that something like a third of them eventually turn into prem starters after a couple of years.

Would probably be best? The hopeless (/delusional) optimist in me still thinks he could start next season with 6 more months of good football and bulking up under his belt. He stood out loads for Bayern in their Youth League games and even a senior level friendly or two though, I'm hesitant to...

Not when discussing something which has a population-wide perfect bell curve...but we digress

I promise you this is not true Joey haha

There's a glorious irony in this post not understanding how averages work

I rate DCL a lot more than most I think, and would have much preferred to have him over Beto, and I still think we did the right thing *at the time* of setting a hard salary limit. Much better practice in the long term.