On or off the pitch, James Trafford has never been shy about coming forward.

He realised early on in Manchester City's academy that he was going to have to try to get as good with his feet as Ederson if he was going to become City's No.1, and that was a goal he was quite happy to tell the media about at the very beginning of his career.

It shouldn't be remotely controversial, yet it is also a level of confidence that is rarely seen publicly from young players looking to make it in the game. Goalkeepers are characters at the best of times though, and a no-nonsense Cumbrian who had grown up on a farm and knew the similarly forthright Dean Henderson saw no harm in telling anybody what he wanted and expected to achieve.

It wasn't that he had nothing to back it up when he was talking at

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