Given this is the single biggest risk out there, the reluctance to forecast has frustrated Danny Gabay, an economist at Fathom Consulting, who has made his own estimates.

Can you find the next Wayne Rooney or Cesc Fabregas and snap him up before he becomes a star?

If you look at the players who were on the pitch that night they all played in the Carling Cup – Bendtner, Song, Denilson, Fabregas even Clichy.