First time I’ve seen him player properly yesterday. Looks an outstanding prospect. For people that watch the academy what’s his natural position? Did he stand out at that level?
He’s a central midfielder and will be a very good one. Issue is he won’t get many games in that position due to the outstanding players that occupy those middle three spots.
He played centre mid and sometimes centre half in the youth setup. But he was brought here quite late in his development, from West Brom I believe. Similar to Yoganathan who was let go by Liverpool. You’ve to credit Bobby Hassell and co in the academy for finding lads like that. Even though much of the bbs wants it closing down. I’ll be honest though. I think they’re both ideal subs. They aren’t regular starters for me. That’s not criticism either. I just think Russell and Kelly ought to be ahead of them both in midfield, and I imagine Watson will play right back.
On the bits I’ve seen of him he looks a better right back than central midfielder but it’s good for him that he can play both as it’ll mean he gets more appearances which is what any young player needs
I said it about 20 times from 70 minutes until he eventually glided on in the dying stages. I can’t imagine he’ll be happy to play second fiddle. So I do wonder if he’s the most likely to be on his way out.
I know he started pre-season late but it feels like we’re not playing him because the plan is to sell him at some point. If he’s not involved on Wednesday then I’d say it’s certain that’s the plan.
