Smoz wrote:Mark_Wafc wrote:I’m looking forward to seeing him play, and to be fair to the lad he’s made a brave decision to sign for a lesser club but at least he will get chance to play. The likes of Palacios & Valencia are examples of playing their football with us and getting the big move after a couple of years rather than signing for Arsenal, City or whatever at a young age and disappearing into the reserves behind proven international stars.
I’ve heard the talk about him, but am always a bit wary when someone gets rave reviews in the Championship because we’ve had our fingers burned with Scotland, Gomez etc but here’s hoping this lad will be different!
In an ideal world I would have liked him to have stayed with us, naturally, however given that as is well known we need cash so he had to go.
As for signing for a 'lesser' club, I think he has made the right decision. Over the years we have seen our promising youngsters signing for big clubs (or Spurs) only to sit on the bench/in the reserves/loaned out to smaller clubs thereby never fulfilling their potential. At Wigan hopefully he will manage to get a regular run out with the first team.
Dont worry about him not playing, he will be on the team sheet at Sunderland on Saturday i've no doubt about that!
