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Poveda is a class act but needs to graft

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Guy Branston
14 November 2021

Guy Branston
FORMER FOOTBALL LEAGUE DEFENDER AND LEICESTER CITY LOANS MANAGER

WINNING SMILE: Winger Ian Poveda celebrates scoring his first league goal for Blackburn in their 3-1 win against Sheffield United last weekend
PICTURE: PSI/ Craig Galloway

I GREW up as a scout looking at the England youth set-up, marking down up-and-coming players like Ryan Sessegnon and Austin Samuels.
Ian Poveda - currently playing at Blackburn on loan from Leeds - is another who sticks in my mind from those days.
He was somewhere between Barcelona and Brentford at the time, and ultimately ended up signi...

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