#championship-promotion

#championship-promotion

Hopefully it gives us an extra bit of quality, experience, a bit of knowhow for the run-in. [It's] a good bit of business. Anything that can come in and help us try and achieve something, I think is more than welcome. I think Barry's experience and that little bit of quality he's got on the edge of the box with his left foot - picking passes, at set-plays and goals - is going to be helpful for us.

Even a prodigious talent such as Cole Palmer felt he was best served moving on from the club in order to get playing regular first-team football, such is the challenge of getting past a host of the planet's best players in the pecking order. James McAtee is just five months younger than Palmer and rather than moving on from the club in order to get minutes under his belt,