Blues Academy Schoolboy Joins Villa - Ipswich Town News
TWTD understands Town academy schoolboy Teddie Bloomfield has joined Aston Villa.
The Blues have received a fee of around £100,000 for the 14-year-old plus further top-ups as his career develops.
We understand he has agreed a two-year U15s and U16s contract and a two-year scholarship to follow.
Left-back Bloomfield is the son of one-time Norwich City academy striker Danny, a stalwart of local non-league football, and the nephew of Wycombe Wanderers legend and former Blues youngster Matt.
Bloomfield follows former Town U18s manager Adem Atay and ex-U23s coach Gerard Nash to Villa, the pair having joined the staff of the Premier League club in the summer.
Ex-Town academy head of recruitment Steve McGavin also now works for Villa.
Bloomfield isn’t the first Blues academy youngster to join a Premier League club while a schoolboy, Ben Knight having moved on to Manchester City, Harry Clarke and Marcelo Flores to Arsenal and Charlie Brown Chelsea in the last seven years.
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