Three to watch next season

OLIVER NORWOOD

HAS remarkably never played in the Premier League despite winning promotion to the top flight for the third time in three seasons. In 2016-17, the midfielder (right) went up with Brighton. In 2017-18, he was with Fulham as they went up through the play-offs. Now, he is up with United.

CHRIS BASHAM RELEASED by Newcastle aged 16 and worked for McDonald’s in two years out of football. He

was 18 when he put down the Big Macs and got his big break as Bolton handed him his first professional contract. The centre half, 30, has been with the Blades since 2014.

BILLY SHARP

THE striker (left), whose Twitter bio reads: ‘I’m just that fat lad from Sheffield,’ is a goal machine. On New Year’s Day the 33-year-old scored his 220th goal to become English football’s highest scorer since the turn of the millennium.