Porritt to leave Boro

[jimmylibel]

Middlesbrough look set to lose starlet Nathan Porritt this summer.

 

The 17-year-old, Teesside-born, winger is widely considered one of the most talented players of his generation and for many years, England's top clubs have been aware of him.

 

However, Porritt was not offered professional terms when he turned 17 in January, as skysports.com revealed, and Boro's decision not to try and tie him down until this summer could well prove very costly.

 

Chelsea, Liverpool and Newcastle are all known to be very interested - but a host of top foreign clubs are also taking a keen interest.

 

Lyon and Monaco were amongst a number of continental sides that took the chance to watch Porritt in action for England's Under 17s when they played in a recent tournament in Bosnia.

 

Now Porritt's agent Peter Harrison has confirmed that his young charge will not be staying at The Riverside and will not become, as many fans had hoped, the latest product of Boro's hugely successful academy to feature in the first team.

 

"I've informed Middlesbrough Nathan is not signing his contract. He is going to leave," Harrison told the Sunday Mirror.

 

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[sean]

PLTBT!

[yellow jumper]

that panorama programme on corruption in the english game implicated that we had tapped him up.

[Cobs]

that panorama programme on corruption in the english game implicated that we had tapped him up.

Harrison was the dodgy geordie agent in that programme wasn't he?

[yellow jumper]

Harrison was the dodgy geordie agent in that programme wasn't he?

 

yeah, think that's right.

[Leo No.8]

If he's a young, talented winger then despite never having seen him play I say get him in!

[The Hitman]

Idiot.

He could've stayed at Middlesborough to learn all the tricks from England's finest winger.

[Falconhoof]

Idiot.

He could've stayed at Middlesborough to learn all the tricks from England's finest winger.

 

 

Its like a conveyor belt of world class talent! They want Cattermole to model himself on Gerrard.