Erik ten Hag can turn one of the biggest disappointments of the season into a reliable outlet. And next season may have a Max Aarons answer.
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10) Max Aarons
Life is full of unsolved mysteries: what happened to the Mary Celeste? Who was Jack the Ripper? And is Max Aarons actually any good? Four seasons into a yo-yo career of promotion, relegation, promotion and certain relegation, interspersed with interest from Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Roma and a series of Premier League clubs, the answer seems further away than ever.
Both his Championship campaigns have resulted in a winner’s medal, nomination for the EFL Young Player of the Year award and a place in the PFA Team of the Year. Aarons has subsequently accompanied Norwich to the bottom of the table on both of his visits to the top flight. He has just turned 22 and there is a sense that he has shown enough to suggest he could attune his talents to a more ambitious team and become that rarest commodity: an English right-back whose excellent attacking contributions are constantly undermined by doubts over his defending.
9) Odsonne Edouard
Ten Crystal Palace players have been given more minutes but only two teammates have outscored Odsonne Edouard so far this season. Patrick Vieira hailed his summer deadline day signing’s “proven quality” yet the opportunities to demonstrate such ability have gradually diminished and that two-goal salvo in six substitute minutes against Tottenham on the opening weekend seems to have been a false dawn. The Frenchman has slipped behind Christian Benteke, Jean-Philippe Mateta, Jordan Ayew and Wilfried Zaha since.
A true pre-season should revitalise Edouard, whose immediate impact on the Scottish Premiership with Celtic was always going to be difficult to replicate in England. His late arrival to a new team, coach and squad last summer further compromised a…
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