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O’S GIVE DANE HIS CHANCE TO BE GREAT…

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The LeaguePaper Team
6 September 2026

POTENTIAL: Dane Scarlett

DANE Scarlett, the 22-year-old striker who has just made a permanent switch from Tottenham to Leyton Orient, made some unfortunate loan moves in his formative years.
A spell at Portsmouth went south when John Mousinho replaced Danny Cowley, who had previously described Scarlett as the best defensive forward he’d ever seen.
It was a similar story at Oxford, with Gary Rowett - also appointed mid-season - opting to sign strikers Ole Romeny and Tom Bradshaw in the January transfer window.
And at Hibernian, where the emergence of homegrown youngster Owen Eld...

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