'He wasn't arrogant, he just wanted to play in the Premier League.'
Neil Cox is remembering Hayden Hackney, the lad he had on loan at Scunthorpe in League Two in 2021-22. The season was a wretched slog – they won four games in all competitions on a long trudge to relegation – and it was a wake-up call for a silky-footed teenager reared in Middlesbrough's academy.