Ruud van Nistelrooy must surely be on red alert after what Leicester City teenager has just done
Leicester City have a number of talented teenagers on their books at the moment.
Leicester’s under-21s are one of the best academy teams in the country and rather remarkably, their star players are actually teenagers.
Jake Evans, who recently turned 17, is the top scorer for the reserve side and leads the way in the Premier League 2 with nine goals.
Louis Page, 16, is another exciting talent emerging through the ranks at Seagrave and is impressing on the international stage with England’s youth teams.
But, there’s one star in particular who’s now really making a case to start for the first team after what he’s just done over on international duty over the last week.
Jeremy Monga absolutely tearing it up for England’s under-16s
Jeremy Monga is the jewel of Leicester’s academy and is widely regarded as the best 15-year-old in the country.
Manchester City want to sign Monga this summer and there’s even been talk of Real Madrid and Barcelona keeping tabs.
The tricky wide player has been on international duty with England’s under-16s over the last week and he’s been captaining the Three Lions.
In his three outings against France, Denmark and Columbia, Monga has netted in each game and laid on two assists, which has led to yet more attention around the academy space.
Van Nistelrooy will surely give Monga his Leicester City debut
Monga might only have 11 games left to make his mark in a Leicester shirt.
With so many clubs circling ahead of the summer transfer window, it seems likely he’ll be on the move to one of Europe’s top clubs.
So surely Ruud van Nistelrooy will give him his debut in the coming weeks with Leicester fighting for their Premier League status.
He could hardly do any worse than Jordan Ayew and Bobby De Cordova Reid.
Leicester City shocked the footballing world when they won the Premier League title in 2015/16.
The story of the Foxes’ triumph that season is a remarkable one and will go down as perhaps the biggest shock in Premier League history.
Leicester City spent 2014/15 flirting with relegation, only to avoid the drop thanks to a superb run of form at the back end of the campaign under Nigel Pearson.
However, Pearson was then replaced by Claudio Ranieri in the King Power Stadium dugout, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Leicester ended 2014/15 in 14th place with just 41 points to their name – only one more than the required magic total of 40 that generally guarantees survival.
