If I could offer a piece of advice to Sean Longstaff it would be to stay at Newcastle United, and establish yourself at St James' Park.
He started to really impress people but what he has to do now is scare people with what he is capable of achieving - that is what I set out to do at Newcastle in my first season, scare people.
I arrived at Newcastle from Luton in 1971, aged 21.
My old manager at Luton, Alec Stock, he was a bit of a mentor and said to me 'what you've got to do now is plant yourself in people's minds because when you're doing it in the penalty area, you're also doing it in people's heads'.
And that is what Sean Longstaff got to do. If a move came along now, it would be the wrong time.
Alec told me, and this was despite me scoring 29 goals that season, that I had 'done nothing' and I had to go out and work even harder to prove myself because I was going to a higher level.
That is what would Longstaff would be doing - going up a level.
He can scare people by tearing apart opposition defences with his passing, and if he does that for the Magpies and does it convincingly, he will have heaven knows how many sides knocking at the door for him.
At Newcastle, when he's fit, he'll be in the first team - if he were to go to Manchester United, he probably won't start - and all of a sudden; big money but a hiatus in his career.
What he needs to do is be in the position where he just keeps playing and he'll get better with each game. He can do that at Newcastle but he won't be able to do that at Old Trafford.
Of course, Longstaff like the rest of us doesn't know who will be in the dugout for Newcastle come the kick-off.
I've seen Belgium boss Roberto Martinez linked. I think he could do it but international football is something totally different to league football in term of running a club on a day-to-day basis.
He will need transfer funds - that seemed to be a big sticking point for Rafa Benitez, that is where the breakdown seemed to be between owner and manager.
Benitez had been promised 'every penny generated' - did he get it?
I have my doubts on whether we'll see the kitty boosted by Perez leaving and it just adds to this nervous no-man's land about the club.
Is it being sold? Isn't it being sold? What would a new owner do? Who is the new manager going to be? Who is going to score the goals? For it to be stretching out into July, I just feel myself filling with doubt over any takeover and dread for the start of the season.
