Ashworth will have contingency plans in place in the form of a shadow XI, as he did at BHA to great success. Not at all worried if someone wants to pay through the nose for one of our players. We’re much more about the collective and the process under Howe and Ashworth than about the individual. I also severely doubt a player like Almiron would be able to reproduce this sort of form elsewhere. Howe has basically taylor made a position for him with the likes of Bruno and Trippier playing him in and dovetailing beautifully. At Man U he would soon be warming the bench with Martin. No way he’d even contemplate going for that reason. Not that the rumour is even true of course.