At a glance

Over achiever in human form

Emerson Royal wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea when he arrived in N17. Rightly so.

I made a point at the time - one that is still valid today - that it wasn’t any apparent shortfalls in the boy that we might focus on, but one Daniel Levy who had grotesquely overpaid for the Brazilian. Emerson was barely worth a third of the €30 million that was wildly inves…