Well I'm certainly happy we paid a fee and have him for signed up for another three years. The way he can go past good EFL players is a mouth-watering prospect and he'll still be only 25 when his contract ends in 2028.

It's always a bad sign when there's a disconnect between coaches and recruitment, and it doesn't generally end well for the coaches as they're going against the main thing the likes of Montague and Gagliardi do...

Ardley not picking Rodrigues didn't work out well for him. Ditto Chicksen
Burchnall not playing Nemane, giving us a full year of DKE at RWB put him on track for failure and couldn't have gone down well
Two play-off semis where SM brings SA in from nowhere over Jarvis was head scratching to say the least. I dare anyone to watch those games back.

It's a point worth remembering IMO, whoever we bring in now has to work in sync with the the Head of Recruitment, Gagliardi.