Lingard sings ex Hammer’s praises

Jesse Lingard has admitted that Ravel Morrison was the stand out player as a youngster at Manchester United and ahead of Paul Pogba.

Morrison’s Hammers history is well known but Lingard has explained how he could have had the world at his feet.

He said: “I played with [Morrison] from eight, nine. He was that raw natural talent, the player who could do anything. If he wanted to score he’d just score.”

He told the Sunday Times: “Even at 18 nobody could tackle him and he scored goals and produced skills you shouldn’t be able to at that age.

“In the Youth Cup every one of his performances was above 8/10, you knew he’d be a top player.”

Morrison is now back in the UK for another crack at things during a loan spell with QPR.