Delighted for Saido on the international call up, as a fan its great, i started going in 86-87 season when we had just been relegated so i missed our great sides and then had 16 odd years of mainly rubbish, and like probably a number of our fans on here when we had players like Micky Evans, Paul Williams, Brett Angell as our strikers if you had said one day we would have the current best young striker in England playing for us, developed by our academy and also been called up for the national team it just shows how far we have come.
I will watch England games with a lot more interest, very proud times for the player, the club and us fans.
As for his comments on Sky, just seen them and i would imagine that 99% of all footballers asked would say they want to play for top clubs, in champions league, in world cups, etc. Only Saido knows if he really means that he wants to just keep working hard and doing well for West Brom and see what happens, or if he is really already looking elsewhere, his form this season suggests the first option!
I said last season it was down to him, by all accounts he got a bit billy big balls and at that stage you either continue down that path, normally not make the most of your talent and become known as a bit of a tool (ie - Collymore) or you snap out of it and get your feet back on the ground, Saido looks like he has chose the right option so far and fair play to him, he has a natural talent for scoring goals and finishing and that cant be taught, he has worked on that along with his all round game and he looks a much better player, still a lot of work to be done but he is young and i think if he has this season and maybe next with us he should be ready to step up, its his first season of playing week in week out, worst thing he could do would be go a be a squad player at a Liverpool or Spurs, when he moves to a club like that he should be in a position to go as the main man.
