It`s Lazio trying to hype him up. Also, I wouldn't call SMS a star player.
Yep, point taken, didn't word that right, definitely looks like I was indicating that SMS was a star player, I wasn't, I was just trying to point out that Ed seems to like to bring in players who basically sell shirts, like Galacticos. I don't want players here who don't really want to come (De Ligt for one), due to no champions league, I would rather have players like James, who are willing to work hard, to try to establish themselves in the first team, and could, in the long term, save us money. I know that not all these type of signings come of, and not all the academy lads will develop into good, or very good players, but some will, and that has always excited me, right back to George Best coming through in the early 60's (God I pray for another player like him coming through). I think you are right about the Lazio hype, a lot of that goes on nowadays, I reckon about one in twenty players that we are linked with are actual targets of ours, Fernandes, Maquire and Longstaff probably the only ones at the moment, although I personally like Maddison, and would like to see a short term striker signed (Arnoutevic I liked, but he's gone now) to give Greenwood time to develop properly, and not rushed through too quick.