Originally Posted by
Insidious
It's always hard to see young talent leave, especially as there is that sense of "what it?" although hopefully this works out in the Pacheco/Coates realm.
We're getting cash for a player with 4(?) first-team appearances, all(?) of which were in Cup competitions, who is behind two others (depending on your view) in the 19-21 age bracket, that play his favoured position. With us getting 15% of any future sale. There's a twinge of regret for me as you'd love to see him develop here and be boss, but that ultimately looks like sharp, sharp work.
Agreed.
You also have to feel a little bit for some of these young players and squad players when you're vying to break into the first team and one or more of the players ahead of you are basically world class and literally rated the best in the world in their position.
Which is why you kind of appreciate having someone like an Adrian as our backup because he knows and accepts his reality (that he'll never be starting ahead of Allison, but at the same time is happy enough to be the backup goalie and to be here), in contrast to Karius who would want to be starting but would face just as hard a task of upending Allison regardless of the circumstances.
Same thing for anyone covering the front three, which is why it's even more amazing that we were able to get Jota, because he probably also knows he's not starting a lot of games ahead of any of them.
But you're right.
Great business by Edwards and the club getting a fee for him. I just hope he doesn't go on to become a megastar for them and come back to haunt us (sometimes it's hard to watch Ings tearing it up for the Saints knowing he could have been knocking in those goals fo us).
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