Our Iberians

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As you say Alf, the issue people have is the fee we paid but forget the size of that fee was in part due to his future potential.

Carvalho is still only 22, he is still young enough to play in our development squad for God’s sake! He is nowhere near the finished article yet. He is a few months younger than both Worrall and Cash who most of us still regard as green and cut them some slack accordingly. He is still learning the game and in a foreign country to boot.

I will accept that there is a challenge where he fits in our current system, maybe he would suit a premier team better but I hope we find that out when he is playing there for us. Regarding Silva adapting quicker he is a few years older so maybe thats to be expected. Special mention for Yuri too coming along in leaps and bounds and he is another 22 year old.

Which Premiership team ...? Players like him are loaned out all over Europe by the Premiership teams...