On March 26 last year, Give Me Sport reported that Southampton wanted over £100million for “teenage sensation” Tyler Dibling. What we all want in life and what we get are often two very different things though.

Jack Grealish, who lit up Everton’s first season at Hill Dickinson Stadium on loan from Manchester City before a stress fracture in his left foot curtailed his campaign in January, was the first £100million English footballer, and since then only Declan Rice – schooled by Blues boss David Moyes at West Ham United before joining Arsenal after the Irons’ UEFA Europa Conference League win under the Scot – has joined him.

For all his promise, it seems that Dibling was never a £100million player, not at this early stage in his career. One thing that he certainly isn’t anymore is a teenage sensation because today the Exeter-born prospect celebrates his 20th birthday.

Following their relegation from the Premier League, it was always highly unrealistic the Saints were ever going to get the previously touted nine-figure fee for Dibling, but even going into last August, St Mary’s chiefs were holding out for a £50million price tag that would have made...