My boy knows him. Heard similar stories. Hope City keep hold of him and give him a chance. Sounds like the real deal.
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Chatted briefly to his father this evening at Taffs Well, his younger brother is already at Man City and they want him, with Burnley and Southampton interested as well. City would want £5m for him. Good to see the club keeping onto their assets, especially after losing Matondo for peanuts
My boy knows him. Heard similar stories. Hope City keep hold of him and give him a chance. Sounds like the real deal.
The father seemed a little annoyed that he can't move to man city, but said that they realise that they've just got to get on with it 👍
I have no idea how contracts work, I was thinking along similar lines when he said that. They must have tied him up to some sort of contract, his dad said he was one of the "scholars", whatever that equates to. A quick Google search brought up that he's played for England u15s and Welsh schoolboys too.
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.