WE HAVE A STARLET!

A trawl of the usual channels like YouTube reveal a couple of clips of the teenager in action.
He looks a handful. In the first bit of action, he performs more step overs than Ronaldo, before skinning the full back and shooting which the goalkeeper parries.
Tap in for the unrushing centre forward.
The second is, admittedly, hugely impressive.
The starlet picks up the ball on the edge of the box, bizarrely runs sideways, away from the goal, slaloming round four defenders before straightening, and pinging a left footer into the bottom corner.
Scorcher.

Here's the evidence.

We'll have to see how strong he is, and if he's ready for the odd run-out off the bench this season.
I hope it's not another case of sending him out on a two-season loan to Barnsley. Surely the top European clubs were chasing him for a reason.
Arsene Wenger has shown with his nurturing of Walcott the way to bring young talent into the first team, slowly but surely.
It was a disappointment to read recently that centre forward Nemeth was on the verge of a loan move to Leeds.
There was plenty of talk of the Hungarian joining the big boys this season after plundering goals in the ressies.
With Crouch seemingly on his way out, and fingers crossed The Tank Voronin, he would have offered something fresh and different as our fourth striker.
If you're good enough you're old enough, surely.
What does everyone think? Give these youngsters more of an opportunity or squirrel them away for a couple of seasons?
Chuck them in the deep end I say, see if they sink or swim.
Rooney only became the world-beater he is today because somebody gave him a chance to show what he could do at the tender age of 17.
Well done Moyesy. Shame Wayne couldn't reward him with a few more years service.

In other news, we've rejected Harry Redknapp's £9m bid for Crouchie. I hope Rafa is not too gung-ho over this.
He's defo got to go, and we desperately need the cash to buy new players, but we don't want Pompey to get frustrated and start looking elsewhere.
I'd hold out for no more than £10m, then do the deal. No point playing a game of cat and mouse for the sake of an extra £2m.
And let's put this Barry saga to the end. I hope we say anything over £12m for a 27-year-old is too much, but I fear Rafa has his heart set on him.

What does everyone think of David Silva? He would be a great addition for us, but at the right price.
£20m seems way, way too much.
He has got a lot of talent though, a beautiful left foot, he glides past players and he can score goals by popping up in the box more often than not. Last night against the Russians was a case in point.
A worrying tendency to feign injury and roll around on the turf after being blown on though.

Finally, the difference between Cesc Fabregas and Xabi Alonso was abundantly clear last night.
Ok, Xabi only got on for 25 minutes or so, and the Arsenal man got an hour. But there's a chasm between the pair in terms of ability.
Fabregas grabs a game by the scruff of the neck, dominates it, runs it, dictates the whole thing.
Xabi ushers the ball to the left and right, happy for someone else to make a decisive move. We need do-ers in centre-midfield and Xabi's not one of them.