Marko Stamenic

Stamenic plays with the calm of a midfielder who has already tested himself against far better opposition than most of the Championship offers on a given weekend. He looks to break lines with a forward pass rather than simply recycling possession sideways, an instinct that comes from spending formative years inside academies and first teams built around keeping the ball on the ground. Swansea signed him from Nottingham Forest hoping that continental education would translate directly into England's second tier.

Whether it does remains the open question. Technical midfielders raised in Denmark, Serbia and Greece do not always find the transition to the Championship straightforward, because the game here rewards physical duels and quick transitions as much as clean passing angles. Watch whether he can impose his style on matches that turn scrappy, rather than simply excelling in the ones that stay open and inviting.