Cyrus Christie

Christie has played at the top level of English football and represented his country at a major international tournament, experience very few defenders at this level of the game can genuinely claim. His career has taken him through a long list of clubs across more than a decade, exposing him to different managers, different systems and different standards of opponent. That breadth tends to show itself in how calmly he deals with pressure other defenders still find unsettling.

The obvious tension is that a career built on moving frequently between clubs does not always suggest total consistency, and questions about whether he is a long term answer tend to follow him. What matters now is whether all that experience turns into him being first choice rather than simply squad depth. Watch how often he starts and how the side performs down his side, before judging where he genuinely fits.