If he doesn't make it big I'd be very surprised. Only his lack of stature might hold him back but somehow I doubt it.

He's a really good player. I saw him play against Rochdale a few weeks ago. He ran them ragged down the wings for a half until Rochdale brought the lad Matheson on who had the pace to keep him relatively quiet. Atsu's fast and tricky. Matheson on his way to Wolves for £1million apparently - that's a steal.

One or two good managers have taken a punt on him and failed miserably. He's best left to his own devices. He'll wake up one morning and realise he's blown what could have been great career. I was reading an article by a United player the other day and he said Morrison was the most talented player at the club at the time. I had a pal who was on Bury's books back when they were in the old Div 2. I was out with him on the Saturday night after he'd had a blinder for their youth team. He'd been told he was playing for their reserve team against Wolves at Molineux on the following Wednesday night. I was walking home from work that night and who should I bump into but my pal. I said " I thought you were playing at Wolves tonight ". He said " Nah, I couldn't be bothered mate, I missed the bus over to Bury and the coach will have left without me ". I'd have walked it to Bury to play in a game like that. He had a similar attitude to Morrison.

He'd solve our left back problem no danger !

I think he wasn't wrong in Pogba's case.

I agree with you regarding him not being a " Man Utd " player. Lots of very good players have flopped there.

Hogan staying fit is a big gamble.

I thought Sunderland have just signed a midfield battler from QPR.

So they're not coming back for Brererton then ?

That makes for some good reading.

It wasn't just that. I wasn't massively impressed by his time here either but he was worse at Big Club by all accounts. Add to that he then spent a year treading water back at Southampton. He just wasn't progressing. I really couldn't see that for that sort of money we didn't have better options out there

If there's anybody out there prepared to give us £2.7 million for Brererton we should take it.

Support at Rovers has always been varied. I was looking at some stats the other day regarding the run up to the West Ham 8-2 away win. Briefly we'd- Drawn 2-2 away at Man Utd Drawn 1-1 home to Sheff Wed Won 4-2 away at Everton Won 3-0 home to Birmingham Won 3-1 away at West Brom Won 4-1 home to Arsenal ( Top of the league at that time ) Drawn 0-0 away at Ipswich Won 2-1 away at Liverpool. Won 2-0 home to Villa. I think we were top of Division 1 at this time, gate for the Villa game ? 17,095. My condolences on your very sad loss.

I wonder if the lads who played in Mathews testimonial asked for a fee ? Dougie played and starred in that game against the cream of world football so he obviously didn't bear a grudge. Cheung Chi-Doy was actually from Hong Kong, he played 2 games scoring 1 goal for Blackpool in the 1960-61 and 1961-62 seasons.

Alarm bells started ringing loud and clear when they started talking about a £5 million investment being enough to get us in the Champions League !

If they have it's nothing to do with football.

I didn't go to Bill's testimonial. Alf Ramsey and Bill were full back partners for England.

That was ten years ago. Since then they've learnt nothing. That's pretty unbelievable really.

If I were a winger playing up against Bell and I got the word from the bench to switch wings and try my luck against Nyambe I'd pretend I hadn't heard anything.

Why play him then ?

He takes a good selfy though.

Let's play him at centre half then because he's struggling up front.

They could do with a break, somewhere warm.

Who was it that was trying to tell me Gallagher was a good header of the ball when we signed him this summer ?

I didn't exactly write him off although I had grave doubts about him as a footballer. I just thought he wasn't what we needed at that moment in time, especially when we were betting the ranch on him.