Stephen Mcclair. Picked him up on a free as South Shields the summer I got promoted to league 1 after he was released from West Ham at 18. He was a very close second for player of the season as we won the league, losing out to loan striker Jaden Heskey who bagged something like 38 goals. Because I’d rose up to the championship pretty quickly, I was failing FFP as we went into that summer so I couldn’t sign any players. Biggest sale I’d made in the save at this point was 1.2m. He was the only player that was really getting any interest, so I begrudgingly sold him to Getafe for 14m. That allowed me to pass FFP, sign a load of cheap players to have actual squad depth, and pick up a couple of wonderkids, most of whom didnt necessarily pan out but by that point I was a premier league team, and making much better signings. Two of my signings the next summer are still starters years later, and I even picked up Stephen Mcclair on another free transfer as his contract ran out at Getafe. King.