Leicester Wonderkid Jeremy Monga, 15, Snubs Man City Interests to stay with foxes

Leicester City has signed the 15-year-old Starlet Jeremy Monga on a bumper new contract in a large coup for the Championship Club.

The news will come as a blow Manchester City and a series of other Premier League and top continental clubs that were desperate bite Up the Teenage Prodigy.

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The wing player became the second youngest player to appear in the Premier League earlier this season when he rose as a replacement against Newcastle.

And he then preceded seven Premier League performances Ruud van NistelrooyFoxes relegated.

That aroused interest rates from Euro Giants Real Madrid” Barcelona And Bayern Munich In addition to interest closer to home, led by Man City.

Foxes -fans Freuated Monga would be broken up Before he fulfilled his potential with the king Current.

City could have diving before he was old enough to sign his first professional contract at the age of 17 and Leicester would only have received a nominal fee as compensation for developing young talent.

However, that would have been worth a fraction of the actual value of the child.

Now Leicester has protected their investment by convincing the 15-year-old winger to sign a new stock market contract with a professional clause that starts when he reaches his 17th birthday in July next year.

Monga, who joined the Leicester academy as a nine -year -old, will now start with his Academy Scholarship summer With his first pro contract that starts in the summer of 2026.

Despite the fact that he was only 15 years old, Monga already presented for the Foxes First team during the 2024/25 season.

It means that next season the teenager will be trying to help Leicester return to the Premier League in the first attempt and comes as a huge boost for the degraded foxes.

Leicester is also about to sign colleague Jake Evans for a similar deal.

Van Nistelrooy said at the end of last season: “It is important to have these players for the future For a longer time. I think he will be very good for the club. ‘

Polish goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk extended his contract by the club until 2027 after an impressive campaign in which the 24-year-old Academy graduate collected 10 Premier League performances.

In total, Leicester signed up nine graduates from the academy while preparing for life in the Championship.

But Monga’s deal is by far the most important because it keeps him out of the claws EuropeThe leading clubs.

After a 16 -minute debut from the bank in return for Newcastle In the Premier League, Monga made another six league matches for the club under Van Nistelrooy.

A club statement said: “Nine exciting young talents of our academy will expand their stay Leicester City After a combination of new contracts, expansion options and exhibition agreements were confirmed …

“Meanwhile, Jeremy Monga has promised to start his professional career as a Leicester City player, with an agreement that now exists to secure the future of the talented teenager at King Power Stadium.

“Jeremy is starting his Academy Scholarship with his first professional contract this summer to start in the summer of 2026.

“Our second-jongest performances Maker and the second-jongest player in Premier League historyAfter making the first of his seven Premier League performances against Newcastle United In April, 15 years and 271 days, Jeremy is one of an exciting group that is currently progressing on our Academy Pathway, with which he became a member as one under 9. “

History maker

The versatile wing player has been a captain of England‘S Under-16s too and trained with City’s U-21S team as a result of its potential.

But that only helped to attract the attention of some of the European top clubs, with the city among those who wanted to bind a movement this summer.

Monga almost wrote history by becoming the youngest ever Premier League goals against Nottingham ForestOnly to be refused by Matz Sels.

Van Nistelrooy was boisterous in his future and said at the time: “That would have been a story if Jeremy could have surpassed his exam week with a winner away in Forest.

“If he stays here and this is his future, we can build more minutes in his path.

“I have had many conversations with him and his family. And hopefully he can draw soon – it’s up to him.

“It is a pleasure to work with him and sometimes we talk about it Gcses And math. I sometimes even have to help him with his studies!

“But if he had scored the winner against Forest, it would have been a real fairy tale.”