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Listening to a recent interview of Ivan Toney, you get surprised to hear what he have to say about his early life in football and that he was rejected at the age of 15, the club in question, Leicester.
This happened during the days of Nigel Pearson, Steve Walsh and Craig Shakespeare, so really surprised to see that they just let him slip.
He was picked up by Northampton and as a teenager getting his league debut, and made a move to Newcastle happened, playing just two league appearances with a lot of loan moves on the way. He spent three years wit hte Magpies and added up a grand number of games on loan at Barnsley, Scunthorpe, Wigan and Shrewsbury.
The move to Peterborough made him good and he developed into a forward in demand, scoring 40 goals in 76 league games. Then his breakthrough at Brentford moving there 2020, to date 111 league appearances and 63 goals so far.
Ivan Toney took step by step and Gareth Southgate picked him for England, getting his debut in the game vs. Ukraine in March this year. Then his ban came, and he is now preparing to come back and there are major clubs interested in signing him for a massive fee.
Chelsea is said to have an interest, but surely January will be exciting and nothing is settled regarding his future, strangely he was overlooked at Leicester, and what massive mistake that turned out to be.
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