Depressing as owt that in the back of my mind I want to refrain from getting overly attached to him too much for fear of being butt-hurt a few months down the line. Same for Mitrovic. I blame the Carroll sale, no matter how good that piece of business has turned out in the end. Being a NUFC fan under Ashley really is a mindfuck. You find yourself occasionally hoping we lose games to make the position of undroppable managers untenable somehow, and you hope the good players do well but not so well as to attract the attention of the bigger clubs.