[Devongone]

At least Everton put some young players in their team, but for every Rooney, Barkley and Davies there are loads who don't even achieve Jose-Baxterdom wandering the lower leagues in search of the best nite-spots. The big clubs are just an impersonal mining process panning for infinitely tiny glints of gold and sieving out the rest onto what they think are the slurry tips of proper jobs and non-league football come Saturday.

Let the lad get a year on his back playing games. Look what this kind of attention did for Tendayi Darikwa. One week he was Man Utd's new winger the next he was an out-of-form full back messing up a Division 2 overlap.