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Sorry to break this to you, but I think it’s in part because he isn’t very good.

Who knows.

Why did he freeze him out?

Well we wont know as Lampard froze him out. Thanks for the discussion anyway. I win.

And now he’s back on the first ferry to the French second division. £2.5 million well spent?

My argument is that young players that Championship teams sign for seven-figure sums tend to be considered as viable first team options...

And they were signed with no expectation of contributing to the first team? If so, then yeah, fair play to you.

I don't want to inject myself into a separate argument but i'm pretty sure you can be a 'development player' while also playing...

Which is fine, except a) £2.5 million is high for a Championship development project and b) his current ‘development’ trajectory has him...

Because it’s quicker to ask someone who clearly has an in-depth knowledge of Sunderland’s squad I don’t want to turn this into a “He’s...

Or I can blame the scouts who were convinced we were buying primo talent that turned out to be a development project at best? I’m not...

Hence why I asked what they cost - was it around £2.5 million?

And these players all cost £2.5 million and played badly for Sunderland before being shipped out again? I also don’t think we should...

It was a risk though? The kid is going to spend this season back in the French second division where we found him. We took a sizeable...

So in your view we can just spend £2.5 million on a youth player without King or Austin having to make any considerations about how it...