Arsenal are to sign to sign young forward Mika Biereth after he turned down Fulham’s offer of professional terms, according to the Athletic.
The teenager, who starred as Steve Wigley’s under-18s successfully defended their Premier League south title last season, has rejected Fulham’s attempts to keep him at Craven Cottage and elected to join the Gunners. Biereth scored 21 goals in 21 league games for the under-18 side and his departure is seen as a significant blow as Fulham look to integrate more of their promising youngsters into the first team set up under new manager Marco Silva.
Biereth has long been highly rated at Motspur Park, making his under 18 debut at the age of just 15 as a substitute against Reading in February 2018. He scored 26 goals in 41 appearances for Fulham’s under 18s in four seasons with the club – and also played four times for the club’s under-23 side.
Why do we keep losing our best Accadamy players to other teams it doesn’t make sense.
It’s not all John B sense of it is if a big club comes in always chance they will go, to name just a few we took Woodrow Stansfield Smalling from smaller clubs than us .
Another lost promising young striker leaves. They have a much greater chance of playing for a smaller team than one of the big clubs. Are we offering them lesser terms/money
Football ? and footballers are pure money making machines… That has turned a very greedy affair which in turn has taken the game away from the working class fans…. Just remember what Roy Keane said about prawn sandwiches..
That’s a shame, he was a special talent. Hopefully Stansfield will be allowed to step up this year if / or Jasper does go out on loan