A couple of years ago, Ivan Toney joked that if he had a pound for every time he had heard Ollie Watkins’s name, he would be able to go on a Monopoly-style rampage and snap up half of London.
At the time, Toney was on his way to breaking the Championship’s scoring record (since annihilated by Aleksandar Mitrovic), firing Brentford to promotion in his first season at the club after signing from Peterborough the previous summer as a replacement for Watkins, who was making waves in the Premier League after a move to Aston Villa.
