MANCHESTER CITY are ready to make a move for Leicester City wonderkid Jeremy Monga.
The teenage star has already featured on The Foxes’ first team bench despite being only 15.
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The versatile winger has been captain of England‘s Under-16s too and trained with City’s U-21s squad as a result of his potential.
But that has only helped to catch the eye of some of Europe’s top clubs and City are now hovering and hoping to tie up a move this summer.
Leicester are five points adrift of safety in the Premier League with only 11 games to play. They looked doomed for relegation.
Even so, the club is desperate to hang onto budding talents like schoolboy Monga to help them bounce back into the top flight.
Because of his age any deal will have to go through a tribunal with mega-rich Man City forced to pay compensation to Leicester should they nab one of the club’s brightest prospects.
Monga featured in all three of Leicester Under-21s’ EFL Trophy matches earlier this season.
Last month he was even named on Ruud van Nistelrooy’s bench for the Foxes’ 2-1 FA Cup defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford.
He has featured seven times in the PL2 this season, scoring once and laying on an assist.
Monga has so far earned eight caps for England’s Under-16s.
He scored in a 7-3 win over Denmark last month.
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