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Good anticipation and finish.
Thanks for that. I was watching but was so knackered I went to bed. Was thinking of recording but couldn't be assed.
In effect we could buy him back for 7.5m - I'm sure we won't though.
Apparently we're considering it! -
Could let Lucas go and bring Edwards back at a profit. Tbh, I think Edwards would probably be better suited to that slightly withdrawn wide role than Lucas. Just my opinion mind.
What so Edwards is suddenly good enough for us now?
Scoring against Woolwich was enough for me.
I never understood why Poch didn't try and use Edwards in the last 15 minutes of games. Ok he sounds like he was a bit of a bell end, but most teenagers are, this is the one thing that annoys me about youth development.
He clearly has crazy ball control and simple psychology would mean if we started showing faith in him and his ability, he would potentially show more faith in us and behave a little better (or turn into Ravel Morrison, but at least we would have tried instead of transferring his attitude problems to Norwich). It's not like his talent wasn't known to every coach in England, he's been raved about for years. Bizarre.
Playing young players in the last few mins of matches doesn't do much for their development, it was clear that Edwards had to mature in which we did the right thing by sending him to Norwich. In theory it was a good loan move because they play on the front foot and played the way Poch likes to setup his teams, however he didn't take his chance and that's fully on Marcus. I criticized Poch on the way he handled KWP but he got this one right IMO