I presume you mean Besiktas rather than Benfica?

It was too daring, an audacity! No one could see it coming.

The real challenge for this lad, is to keep his brains down;

That he may play, to play and play to play only. Its a huge challenge and I hope players like Giggs and other Scholes would, spare the time to tell him, he’s only revved up his engine.

The long journey starts from now; To be ontop of your game.

As for capability, I think I have seen that shops! and I like what I see.

They played Man U in the final where Macheda did some damage. Our boys reported back that he was on a different level relative to his teammates.

The good news is he’s at a premier institution that can develop him. And if he continues getting action on the pitch, he’ll surely mature. My only hesitation is that there are many young “phenoms” out there that end up washing out. Time will tell!

Kiko has great promise and yeah, I suppose that’s right, the hat-trick against Newcastle in the reserves really propelled him into the managers thoughts at such a fateful time.

From his first two appearances last season I thought he would turn out to be a fox in the box but he’s shown a real willingness to join in. Yes, that was on display against Villa but you could have dismissed his energetic display as debut exuberance.

His performances have been more rounded since those first two showings and I think he’s eager to show there’s more to his game, which is brilliant to see, however I wouldn’t mind seeing a little more of that instinct and basically giving the defenders a nightmare instead of showing that he is capable on the ball. We know that, Kiko, now go rough ‘em up! Hah.

The 4 year contract is brilliant news and I hope we get more out of him. If he stays focussed – and as you wrote, that may be a task in itself given his emergence – then he could very well go on to be one of, if not the best, striker in Europe.

Of course it goes without saying that no matter what happens he has his place in history at United but it would be a crying shame – to himself, first and foremost – if he doesn’t apply himself and make the most out of that considerable talent.

This is a kid with frightening potential, just look at the way he accelerated through the youth ladders, so let’s hope for all parties concerned that he does fulfil that potential.

And re: your application for striker, come on mate, you know the rules, we apply as a strike pair or not at all, don’t start whoring yourself in there now!