Originally Posted by ruudvantastic

I remember seeing that Sturridge in the Nike Premier Cup final at Old Trafford as the warm up to PSV v Boca, which was the game before we were due to play Urawa Reds in the Vodafone Cup thingy that was cancelled due to thunder a few years ago.

I remember thinking he looked like a very good player at the time. At the time, I thought we should've tried to poach him as he looked much better than anything we had at that level. Has he progressed much?