Pundit· Talking point· 1 min read
Don't Rush the Kid. But Don't You Dare Hide Him Either.
Every generation, a club gets handed a talent this early and immediately faces the same impossible choice: play him and risk breaking him, or protect him and risk stalling him.
Pundit
There is no safe answer. There is only the honest one. Yates-Salt is eighteen and better than half the starters he'll line up against. You do not sit that in the name of caution. You put it on the pitch, you accept it will have bad afternoons, and you understand that the bad afternoons are the tuition fee on something historic.