Town are set to add 18-year-old Manchester City youngster Luca Fletcher to their development squad.

As per Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano, striker Fletcher is joining on a loan deal with an obligation to buy. The deal is also said to include buy-back and sell-on clauses.

The move is along the lines of the Blues’ previous signings of Tudor Mendel and Somto Boniface with the player going into John McGreal and Chris Casement’s U21s squad.

Reading-born Fletcher, who has been capped by England at U16 and U17 levels, started his career with his hometown club before moving on to City in 2023.

Primarily a central striker but also able to operate on the left and right, Fletcher has scored 12 goals and picked up six assists in 39 Premier League 2 games for City.

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Bert added 11:43 - Sep 1 An interesting and wise decision with the future in mind.
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Bert added 11:43 - Sep 1 An interesting and wise decision with the future in mind.
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TownSupporter added 11:44 - Sep 1 How does this work? Does it take one of our loans away for the season, even if he doesn’t go into squad?
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blues1 added 12:06 - Sep 1 Town supporter. No, bcse its classed as a loan to the academy. Not as part of the 1st team
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d77sgw added 12:09 - Sep 1 Not sure our academy players will get much of a look in bearing in mind the size of our senior squad right now!
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PhilTWTD added 12:12 - Sep 1 Limit on loans is the number in the matchday squad not overall.
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LeightonBuzzardBlue added 12:13 - Sep 1 speaking of Boniface, where is he? Surprised he wasn't around for pre-season or been near the squad for the league, seeing as he made the bench last season? Injured?
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Dino_F added 12:19 - Sep 1 Great to see - he has been a constant in my Football Manager 2024 teams as I've signed him wherever I've gone and is still scoring in 2034 ;)
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Westover added 12:39 - Sep 1 Boniface is injured L B Blue.
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LeightonBuzzardBlue added 14:02 - Sep 1 @Westover, thank you sir
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