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Is he worth a punt?
Would add some grit and pace to midfield.
If the wig go down he will definitely be on the market.

6m and he'll be a good addition.

But knowing wigan and english nationality, we'll prob be looking at 15m.

I've seen him have several good games on MOTD and the FA Cup final but he is very raw and probably would benefit from another year with Wigan, either in the Championship or lower end of the Premier League to develop before moving. When it does come time to move I'm not sure he would choose us as I think I've read that he is an Everton fan (and former trainee) not that we haven't had plenty of blues before. Depending on how Sterling develops though we may not need him anyway as they play in a similar way, bursting past the full back either with the ball or to run on to a through ball before attempting to deliver the ball from wide or cut inside for a shot.

Well, he was man of the match for me but I haven't seen enough of him to pass judgement.

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I think somebody compared him to Sterling a couple of days ago, full of pace and trickery but lacks composure in the final third. However, I think Sterling has the quality to score once in front of goal (We've certainly seen that at reserve level), haven't seen enough of Callum Mcmanaman to say the same, so I'd have to say he isn't worth a punt.

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Everytime I've seen him play, I've thought..."if only his final ball/shot had been better..". You'd expect him to improve that side of his game though.

Would I be happy if we signed him this summer to be part of our first team?Not particularly. There's a possible case to sign him and loan him out, or simply take a punt on him.....but I don't think we are in any kind of position to put a big chunk of our transfer kitty into a player who will play somewhere else. We should only be spending our limited money on players who are better than what we have and will improve the first team.

I'm not sure he would add much 'grit' to our midfield, and we already have youngsters with pace so I don't think he would give us anything we haven't already got. The only reason he's getting games every week is because he plays for Wigan. Sterling would play most weeks for a team fighting relegation, but he's not at the level required to start for us.

We're gonna have limited funds this summer, so I wouldn't put McManaman anywhere near the top of our list, even at under £5m. Every penny will count this summer.

Seen McManaman play a few times, would be a solid addition to the squad.. However I would pay no more than £10 million for him, no doubt we would have to pay over the odds though

10 million? We got Coutinho for less. I would pay a fifth of that at most. Actually not even that much as I don't think we need him.