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Barnes scored more for Barnsley last season, in 15 games, than McClean scored for us in his entire time here.

Also chipped in with a decent amount of assists too.

So while I'm not in favour of building a team of loanees, let's not get too worried. By the looks of his ratios to date, if he can maintain his Barnsley form the kid is good for 10 goals per season from midfield at Championship level. He's almost certainly going to be a better player than McClean as well.

From what I've read, he seems to work best as an attacking midfielder, and we need some youth in the centre along with Mozza, Brunt and Barry.

We're quite well stocked in wide positions anyway with Phillips, Burke, Chadli, Leko and Brunt who can all operate there. If the money saved by selling McClean went towards keeping Chadli/Phillips and strengthening in other areas, this could be quite a clever deal. Not holding my breath on that though, as expect Chadli (at least) will go. We live in hope.