So they get a player who has been arguably our best player for most of the last 10 years and we get a kid with little experience who may or may not be any good. Sounds like the worst swap deal in footballing history to me.

He's a pure attacker, fast and skilful, can take a man on and beat him, different from Benteke, Mateta and Edouard. If we're interested in him, I'd guess it's because he'd give us a different option up front.

Very highly rated coming through (which I'm well aware means little; great youngsters often fall at the last hurdle) but not entirely surprisingly he fell away a bit after a fast start when he originally broke into the Roma team. He's the sort of player we wouldn't have been able to sign in a million years if he'd kept up his breakthrough pace but it appears now we can. Mourinho's let plenty of young players go before who've gone on to make their mark (Salah, DeBruyne anyone?) He's also Ghanaian so I'd guess Ayew would put a protective arm around him and be able to nurture him into the PL.

If Zaha has decided to go (remember, it's his decision, not ours) I'm not averse to Felix as part of the deal. At least it reduces the cash that Man Utd. get a percentage of. Felix is probably not a sure thing but he has a very high ceiling given his age and history and if he does fulfil his potential, we'd be laughing. And I trust Vieira and his team to know how to develop a player.

Your guess is as good as mine. Roma were very high on him when he broke through. My guess is that letting him go is down to a combination of two things. First, what you say; Tammy Abraham has solved their immediate problem up front and second (and probably more importantly) they need to strengthen other areas of the team (hence the interest in Wilf) but don't have the funds to do it, thus they need to offload to buy.

Felix would be a gamble for us (will he fulfil his promise?) but it's a gamble with a very high upside (because he has a lot of promise). As for in any way comparing his value with Wilf's, that's utterly pointless. People need to understand that Wilf's in the driver's seat now and with his contract finishing, we have very little (if any) control over what we can get for him. The market alone will set the price. Either we sell him now on the basis that any return is better than nothing, or we keep him for one more year and let him go for nothing at all. In my view, £15 million + Felix wouldn't be a bad return for a player who's almost out of contract although I can also see the argument that keeping Wilf for one more year and hoping he fires us into Europe would be worth the price of letting him go on a free next summer.

I fear that eventually when the Afcon is on we will only have 3 players left

I always feel bad for hoping the teams our players play for in the AFCON either don't qualify or get knocked out early.