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Ben Banks

Patrick Roberts recapturing Celtic form as Parkhead favourite told he should be making 'hundreds of thousands A WEEK'

Patrick Roberts has been praised for making his football penny drop - but Tony Mowbray insists the Celtic favourite should be playing Premier League football.

Potential at Fulham won the winger a move to Manchester City in his younger days and he shone at Celtic in the 2016/17 season, scoring 11 times with 19 assists. The next brought just a goal and five assists in green and white but for the first time since that 17/18 term, Roberts has more than six goal contributions, proving an influential figure in former Hoops boss Tony Mowbray's Sunderland attack.

He's netted four times with four assists for the Black Cats after helping them out of the League One doldrums, and they're now pushing for the Championship's top six. Mowbray says the 26-year-old should have been nowhere near England's third tier and should be quids in at the top table. He told Sunderland Nation: "Hopefully the penny is dropping for Pat.

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