Ivan Toney

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I'm just thinking, like, what's Ivan Toney doing? Is he in contract at the moment? He's not a

free agent,

mate.

It was amazing.

Ivan Toney is another example of that.

He used to give Saliba a hard time and really give him a run for his money.

So ever since that, I've just wondered what's really happening with Nico Jackson's career.

Like, Peterborough make millions out of players.

We had Ivan Toney, he's from Northampton.

We've had Matt Crooks playing in the Premier League now.

We don't get any...

He's the kind of player the Saudis... would enjoy, very skillful, very flamboyant, takes a shot from distance and there was no replacement.

Ivan Toni came because Bobby Firmino wasn't really convincing as a striker who can deliver 15 plus goals every season at his age.

So, Ivan Toni came but there was dissatisfaction because other clubs were reinforcing the teams and Al Ahly didn't in the same scale.

Still the PIF was injecting more money.

And mind you, Al Etihad had won the league with Al Etihad, the club that shared the city with Al Ahly.

He lets the players go and he maintains the same solid core of the club, which is Idomendi in goalkeeping.

We have two strong centre-halves in Merit Demiral and Roger Ebenezer.

He has Franck Kessey as the boss of the midfield and he has Ivan Toni up front.

argue Harry Kane too started quite

slowly and was loaned out a lot so Harry Kane is in my list here yeah he obviously was at Leicester Norwich and Millwall on loan in his early 20s and didn't really do a whole lot and now he's widely regarded as one of the best strikers in the history of the game David Raya at the age of 24 was playing for Blackburn in League 1 and 7 years later people would class him as one of if not the best goalkeeper in the world Andy Robertson at 22 was playing for Hull who got relegated and then went on to achieve an awful lot with with Liverpool Ivan Toney I have in this as well obviously now he's kind of drifted back off into obscurity a little bit even though he was in the last England squad he was at Newcastle played a little bit when he was very young had a couple of loans at Wigan Barnsley Shrewsbury didn't do a whole lot and then was scoring a lot of goals in the Premier League making big money moves Troy Parrott a bit closer to home I think fits into this category a little bit too struggled with Millwall and Preston Serge Gnabry, I think he's the most, I think he's the first incident of this where Tony Puglia said, doesn't really fit us, doesn't really, he's not up to scratch.

And then obviously he was setting the world alight for Bayern Munich for quite a while.

And the last one I had in my list here was, and this one might not fit it totally, but I just think because of the fact that he's gone for such a big transfer fee and he slipped under the nose of of the juggernaut that is Brighton is Victor Jokeres who had a loan spell with Swansea played 10 or 11 games didn't score had another loan with Coventry didn't do a whole lot they took him permanently was brilliant 25 million to Sporting Lisbon 65 million to Arsenal obviously not living up to it at the moment but I still think he fits it because he was at Brighton and they let him go they don't really let him go I

But whether more can be done, we'll try.

Hopefully, the PFA with the league, they can see what can be done." And this is kind of sim- similar to when I- what Ivan Toney said at the time too.

He was a little more straight up with it.

He said, quote, "We're kind of being used as puppets in my eyes.

We played Scunthorpe in a play-off semi-final, I can't remember how many years ago.

Ivan Toney played for them, didn't he? Do you know what I mean? So it's mad.

We are... nobody's got an entitlement to be in a position as a football club.

We're all at risk of this, whether you're Manchester City or you're Robin United, there's always a chance that this could happen.

And then I look at another performance go by where I'm like...

I used to see Ivan Toni going bully teams away from home in the league with real hold-up play and link-up and passing.

I'm meant to believe that he's giving that to this team.

I'm just so lost with Kai Havertz at the moment.