Just six months ago, Macaulay Langstaff was providing the finishing touches to his best and most prolific season in the game, scoring a brace against Hereford United to reach 32 goals for Gateshead as they sealed the National League North title and promotion into the fifth tier.
Within three weeks of Gateshead's achievement, he was signing for one of the National League's heavyweights in Notts County, working under former Bristol City under-23 coach Luke Williams, and his speed of progression has rapidly increased at Meadow Lane.
In his first season at that level, Langstaff has 18 goals in 20 games to earn the moniker of the "National League Haaland" and unsurprisingly as Championship clubs, bereft of significant money to spend in the window, search for value in the market, their gaze has fallen upon Langstaff.
