Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
I believe he's still 16, certainly no older than 17, so I think he'll be a "scholar" at our Academy until he's 18 when the decision will be made about offering him a pro contract (Man City or any other of the clubs mentioned could get him then), it would seem then that he would have signed an Academy contract pretty recently, so I can only assume that the Man City interest has only come about very recently.

One other thing, I believe having Categoey One Academy status would give us a greater degree of protection from another Matondo style raid, but I'm not 100 per cent sure about that.