2025/26 Thierno Barry

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I’m not directly comparing their situations, but being given opportunity to build is important for different reasons. Barry is a little older than hall and livramento were but he is new to the country and league (having also played for 5 different teams in the last 5 seasons which is a lot of disruption).

He is possibly most similar to Gordon in that sense. Who whilst did get on the pitch every game, averaged half an hour a game. Ultimately being built up to being a starter. As I said, that would be the ideal approach, except we don’t have a prolific striker to allow that to happen.

That's kind of what I was getting at though. I'm not sure it's really accurate to say Gordon was being 'built up to be a starter', he just didn't automatically go into their team because they were a good side on a good run and had other options he was competing with. There's no evidence that it was a specific plan or that the experience made him better, that's just a spin you can put on it to make it fit a narrative (not you individually, just generally).