Rayan Kolli

Kolli has been on the books at his boyhood club since he was small, progressing through every level of the academy before forcing his way into senior matches. He has repaid that patience with occasional moments capable of swinging a whole match on their own. More than once he has scored twice inside the same fixture, evidence of a forward who can turn a single afternoon in his favour almost single handedly. That particular knack for bursts of scoring, rather than one goal here and there, has made him a genuinely interesting option.

The tension around a forward who scores in clusters is consistency between those individual bursts of form. Matches can pass by with barely a sight of goal before the finishing touch suddenly returns all at once. Whether those bursts become more frequent as he matures will decide how significant a role he eventually earns up front.