It’s hard to actually put a price on him. At the start of the season I would probably have accepted £10-15m, now that would be nowhere near enough - after just 3 games.

Our chances of promotion significantly increase with him in the side. So how do you put a price on the cost of that?

I think £25m+ and an option to loan for the season would do it, but I can’t remember us producing an academy prospect that makes such an impact in games.

It would be galling to lose him before the window and it would (surely) have to be mega money.