- Jul 7, 2003
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Teams get promoted, the star players sometimes show their skills, sometimes they don't.
I'll be interested to see how Knockaert, for example, fares at the higher level. Or Dunk. Both have been touted as potential Premier League quality for ages.
But in every team that goes up, there's usually a player who flourishes unexpectedly. Somebody who's not previously been noticed as much as the key names. Bournemouth have a few players that you'd have expected to be jettisoned before now, but who have gone on to establish themselves. Somebody like Leon Brittain at Swansea, who everyone thought would be left behind when they bought new men in, but who's still there years later.
Have we got any of those? What about somebody like Baldock? Very good technically, has had a sound enough season anyway without the outside world really noticing him (perhaps they would have done if he'd been fit more often). Could the Premier League suit his style??
I'll be interested to see how Knockaert, for example, fares at the higher level. Or Dunk. Both have been touted as potential Premier League quality for ages.
But in every team that goes up, there's usually a player who flourishes unexpectedly. Somebody who's not previously been noticed as much as the key names. Bournemouth have a few players that you'd have expected to be jettisoned before now, but who have gone on to establish themselves. Somebody like Leon Brittain at Swansea, who everyone thought would be left behind when they bought new men in, but who's still there years later.
Have we got any of those? What about somebody like Baldock? Very good technically, has had a sound enough season anyway without the outside world really noticing him (perhaps they would have done if he'd been fit more often). Could the Premier League suit his style??
