Steve’s all-oat effort to stay up
® STEVE MOUNIE is doing porridge to help keep Huddersfield in the Premier League.
The Benin international claims he has fallen in love with the hot oat breakfast cereal since moving to Yorkshire from French club Montpellier for £11.5m last July.
Mounie, who has served up eight tasty goals this season, said: “Has porridge helped me with my goalscoring? Yeah, I think so.
“Porridge has given me some energy and some strength.
“The first time I ate porridge was when I came to England, and porridge is very nice.
“I have learned about the food and the way of life since coming here.
“In France we eat later, and I feel in England that you eat really early, at like six o’clock.
“But now me, I eat at six o’clock as well. So that’s part of what I wanted to learn.
“I wasn’t used to eating eggs with beans at breakfast, and now I eat eggs with beans.”
Hinted
Today Huddersfield host relegation rivals Crystal Palace, who they beat 3-0 in their first game of the season – with Mounie scoring two at Selhurst Park.
Another win would take the Terriers a healthy seven points clear of Palace in the Premier League table.
Huddersfield boss David Wagner has hinted that he will have talks with chairman Dean Hoyle during the international break about extending his contract, which runs until the end of next season.
The German said: “In the March international break we will sit together and share our thoughts, ideas and ambitions and then we will work on it until the end of the season.”
Meanwhile, Town have triggered a clause in goalkeeper Jonas Lossl’s loan agreement from German club Mainz 05 to make the Danish international’s deal permanent from July 1.