City secure services of Fulham defender
Manchester City have signed 18-year-old Fulham wonderkid Patrick Roberts.
The signing makes Roberts City’s 3rd high-profile English signing of the summer. The fee is thought to be around £10million with add-ons.
Roberts becomes City’s third high-profile English signing of the summer after the arrivals of Raheem Sterling and Fabian Delph as they continue their home-grown recruitment drive.
Exciting Prospect
The 18-year-old is not expected to form part of City’s first-team squad, and it is not yet clear whether he will be loaned out in order to secure regular senior football next season.
Roberts, a boyhood Liverpool fan, made just two senior starts in the Championship last season as Fulham battled to preserve their survival in the second tier but was considered the jewel of a talented youth side that reached the FA Youth Cup final in 2014.
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