Oh they did. Some people literally said 20, a huge amount said he would get well into double figures. I remember arguing with someone in the summer who said he was ‘guaranteed’ to get double figures - I pointed that out it was an absurd thing to claim about someone who hadn’t scored double figures in the 2 seasons they’d been here and had never scored more than 11 at the top level anywhere, but I was shouted down by loads of people who were absolutely convinced low double figures was the very least he would get. He needs 9 in the next 20 to get there.
