if we didn't already have Lookman, and were currently being linked to a 19 year old winger who'd scored in nearly half his first dozen games for a Champions League side in the Bundesliga, we'd already be ordering kits with his name, and throwing absolute conniptions on here when we inevitably failed to sign him.
people trying to tar him with lack of ambition for not wanting to start the season as a sub for a drab mid-table team with no clear direction - after he forced a move, as a teenager, against the manager's wishes, to a more competitive side in a foreign country and succeeded handsomely - are not fooling anybody.
Lookman is a very solid prospect, who may (sensibly) want to play for a better team, where he will get more game time playing higher quality football for a squad and manager more compatible with his playing style.
if this is true, it's certainly sad that after the past few years, we're no longer the sort of club where the more talented young players feel they can best advance their careers.
but that's an indictment of us, and not him.
