Sympathy or anger

[Gareth]

Fair play to whoever spotted him at Bigggleswade. That's a decent bit of scouting.

Spot on!

[eamonn]

He's had about four decent matches.

It's not exactly "Ashley Young is going to Spurs!!!!1111!!!" territory yet.

I never got that 1111 shit.

[Damo70]

We have cherry picked a few players from smaller Championship clubs, PL clubs will always be capable of buying the best Championship players and all the way up to Manchester City taking players like Sterling from Liverpool and United taking Lukaku from Everton. The football food chain.

[ajmant]

We cherry pick below and so does everyone else. Look at the tables, see where we are are and who can cherry pick from us. And then look at Randy.

[Dominic22]

These stories always seem planted to me. He has a contract until 2018 only just broke into the first team. I bet this is an agent story hunting for a new deal, alternatively the mail wanting us to click and read there adds.....

[tomd2103]

Young strikers are always going to attract attention, especially those with a decent scoring record and teams are always likely to take a punt on them.

[Damo70]

These stories always seem planted to me. He has a contract until 2018 only just broke into the first team. I bet this is an agent story hunting for a new deal, alternatively the mail wanting us to click and read there adds.....

I do enjoy reading newspaper transfer gossip. One day I might get around to logging a load of  transfer stories and seeing what percentage of them actually happen.

[frank black]

Definitely his agent doing his job.

[Drummond]

Fair play to whoever spotted him at Bigggleswade. That's a decent bit of scouting.

Spot on!

Biggleswade is made up of players who've been discarded elsewhere so there's always a chance there will be a good one in there. Davis previously was discarded by Kidderminster, oh how they must be kicking themselves.

All clubs look for players, all clubs are subject to it. Apart, perhaps, from Real Madrid and Barcelona (though even they lost Neymar). It's part of the football food chain.

[johnny from donny]

What the headline should read is "Football scout does job" except it's not going to get much attention when you just boil it down to the bare facts.
There were 22 players on the pitch at any given time, those scouts could have been there to see any of them. Sam Johnstone, for example, would interest most premier league clubs and if De Gea doesn't leave Manchester  United he may look for a start elsewhere.

[PaulWinch again]

I would expect us to be in contract negotiations with him at the moment.

[Clampy]

I would expect us to be in contract negotiations with him at the moment.

I'm not sure that's wise to be honest, not yet anyway. Let's just try and keep his feet on the ground for now. The last thing we need is for him to be discussing contacts and wage rises and to think he's made it.

[Rudy65]

All a bit like Grealish going to Man City et al after a good finish to the 2014/15 season. All bull

Shows what can be taken from non-league though

[darren woolley]

Young players who show promise will always be linked with bigger clubs it's just the nature of the beast but at this moment in time he wont be going n nowhere anytime soon.

[passport1]

Amazed anyone is giving credence to this by even discussing it. Absurd.