Championship is now tasty market

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

TWENTY years ago, perhaps even ten, it would have been unfathomable for a side of Lazio’s pedigree to go shopping in the Championship.
Nesta, Nedved, Veron and Vieri. These are the sorts of names we associate with the Roman giants. Not Morgan Whittaker.
Yet there they were, in the final hours of deadline day, desperately trying to lure the 23-year-old away from Plymouth Argyle.
“When a team like that makes an offer, it shows how far you’ve come,” said Whittaker, and he’s got every right to feel proud. Don’t forget that he spent the first half of las...

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