Next home -grown growth jumps off
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At Bayer Leverkusen and BVB, James Mcatee was traded in December 2024, this year also at VfB Stuttgart, RB Leipzig and Eintracht Frankfurt – but it will not happen to move to the Bundesliga. According to Fabrizio Romano, the 22 -year -old offensive midfielder faces a transfer from Jugendklub Manchester City to Nottingham Forest.
Accordingly, the Europa League participant-which has now been confirmed by CAS to the disadvantage of Crystal Palace-has reached unity with the English U21 European champion. MAN City, where McATEEe is only under contract until summer 2026, an agreement can be expected promptly. According to Romano,
Mcatee the next Palmer? Manchester City and their own talents
McATEE will thus join a prominent ranks of own plants that have been left for a lot of money – it is not clear whether the decision was the best. Cole Palmer (23) went to Chelsea for 47 million euros in 2023, today at EUR 120 million. Morgan Rogers (23) changed to Middlesbrough in the same year for only 1.2 million euros and today has a market value of 55 million euros in the service of Aston Villa. Brahim Díaz (26, Real Madrid), Liam Delap (22, Chelsea), Roméo Lavia (21, also Chelsea) or Jeremie Frimpong (24, Liverpool) did not make the break in the Skyblues sustainably and experienced elsewhere. Michael Olise (23, FC Bayern), Jamie Gitten (21, Chelsea) or Jadon Sancho (25, Man United) once also played in City’s academy – sometimes shorter, sometimes longer. Phil Foden (25), Rico Lewis (20) or Oscar Bobb (22) are counterexamples and James Trafford (22) returned to his youth club for EUR 31.2 million.
In 2021, Mcatee born in Salford, Greater Manchester, gave his premier League debut for Man City. Since then, 33 games and seven goals have been added. He has the most missions for Sheffield United, where he was awarded from 2022 to 2024 and where he contributed 14 goals and eight templates in 75 games.
Nottingham has already issued 73 million euros for newcomers such as Dan Ndoye (24, Bologna) this summer, which, however, is still significantly below the expenses of the past few years (for overview). Among other things, Anthony Elanga (23, for EUR 61.4 million after Newcastle) has left the club, so far the income is EUR 119 million.
