European champions Actual Madrid are reportedly stepping up their curiosity in one in every of English soccer’s greatest younger prospects.
The Spanish giants have employed a profitable coverage of signing promising younger gamers lately, with the likes of Brazilian ahead Endrick and Turkish starlet Arda Guler each now within the first-team squad after signing for the membership as youngsters.
Carlo Ancelotti’s facet have additionally seen Jude Bellingham get pleasure from a profitable first season on the Bernabeu following his €100million transfer from Borussia Dortmund final summer season and could possibly be about to pursue one other younger English expertise.
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In response to HITC, Sunderland’s 17-year-old central midfielder Chris Rigg has had each Actual Madrid and Dortmund monitoring his progress over the previous 12 months, whereas RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich are additionally linked.
The report provides that scouts see Rigg as ‘the very best younger English participant since Jude Bellingham’, with Rigg set to be the subsequent big-money Championship departure.
Rigg has been an everyday for the Black Cats of their quick begin to the brand new season, with the membership topping the second tier having received all 4 of their Championship matches to this point this season.
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Sunderland’s Chris Rigg has been turning heads (Picture credit score: Alamy)
The teen turned Sunderland’s youngest-ever goalscorer when he scored in an EFL Cup conflict final August and is beneath contract on the Stadium of Gentle till 2027 after he penned his first skilled deal earlier this summer season.
In FourFourTwo’s opinion, Rigg is clearly a really proficient participant and one that may little question have scouts queueing as much as see him all season. However discuss of a transfer to a European heavyweight feels untimely at this stage, given the actual fact he solely turned 17 in June. Sunderland has been an excellent membership for younger gamers in current seasons and taking part in in a well-known atmosphere along with his minutes fastidiously managed is prone to be greatest for Rigg’s improvement within the short-term.
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