In the final hours of a busier than usual January transfer window, you could easily have missed news of a late deal involving a young English player rated as one of the most naturally gifted talents of his generation. Still only 23, Marcus Edwards has rarely played on a stage befitting that reputation, but he has the opportunity to do so now having joined Sporting Clube de Portugal.
A fine start to the season with Vitoria de Guimaraes, scoring seven goals in 17 appearances, earned the former Tottenham Hotspur prodigy a last-minute €7.5m move to one of Os Três Grandes, Portuguese football’s three most illustrious and successful clubs. “It’s a change,” Edwards tells The Independent. “It’s really a level up. Just everything, from the intensity of training, how I have to conduct myself, everything.”
