Lee Johnson is determined to nurture Dan Neil, so the player doesn’t burn himself out, despite the youngster’s desire to start every game…
SENSIBLE
"We've got to be sensible with Dan. Not just him, but the likes of Callum Doyle, Dennis Cirkin, Niall Huggins. You heard Gareth Southgate talking about this recently with Mason Greenwood and Jude Bellingham, protecting these young players and managing their workloads. It's the same with our kids who are at a similar age. You've got to get a balance. Dan wants to play every game and rightly so, and so it's up to me to manage it. I really don't think he'll be moaning about the amount of minutes he's had this season."
NO LIMITS!
"There's no limit for Dan in terms of his technical ability. We've worked on his physicality and that sort of burst over the first five or six yards, and I think that's added another dimension to his game this season. If anyone was here tonight, and I'm sure there will have been, they will absolutely have been writing down in their notepad to keep an eye on Dan Neil. He's still got a lot to prove and learn, but he's on a really nice trajectory in terms of his pathway and how he's improving as a player."
