Loan lessons crucial for classy Cat Amad

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

Watching Amad Diallo run rings around Millwall last weekend, it was hard to understand why the 20-year-old is playing in the Championship.
A dip and a dive here. An electric burst of acceleration there. A shimmy and feint to glide effortlessly past a bamboozled defender; the young Ivorian looked every inch the £34m prospect that Manchester United signed from Atalanta last year.
“The way he runs, the way he moves - it’s like the ball is stuck to his left foot,” said admiring Sunderland boss Tony Mowbray. And it was. Millwall’s defenders are no mugs, bu...

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