I am surprised Aston Villa haven’t gone for him after selling Grealish. Both for first team and for squad purposes, even if signing Buendia and Bailey. Lingard - Buendia - Bailey is pretty good, and all can swap positions. Watkins and Ings in front of them, Traore, Ramsey et al in reserve. I did not think Lingard would be good enough for a team like Villa six months ago, but his stint at West Ham showed me otherwise. Fair play to him, I seldom have to admit stuff like that.
Villa can also afford Lingard, whatever he would cost between 20-40 million. Lingard however, for some utterly bizarre reason, would think he is too good for Villa and that’s his career summarized to be fair.