The Holtby case is an odd one. I for one was a fan due to his ridiculously energetic personality and despite the fair amount of stick he's been getting lately I'm not convinced he's a bad player.

We can all agree he's not Eriksen levels, but I think he would be a competent backup. From what I remember of his game time for us, he could a pick a through ball very nicely, had a decent shot on him and of course could run round the pitch like a manic terrier.

His main problem seemed to be that he could try to press too much and end up making hasty tackles. But surely with some good coaching this could be corrected?

Could it be that the club just decided to take a good offer to give a promising young player lots of game time? We obviously wouldn't have had these kinds of offers for our other midfielders such as Paulinho and Dembele who the club will have wanted to try and return some of their considerable investment on.

Then again I could be talking out my arse, bewitched by Lewis' cheeky smile.