Man City sell-on clause means they will watch Tom Brady's latest Birmingham transfer with interest

Manchester City's academy continues to beryllium a invaluable wealth making instrumentality for the club.

It has established itself arsenic 1 of the champion academy setups successful the state and its accumulation enactment is 1 that different clubs volition look astatine with envy.

In an epoch wherever axenic nett for selling academy graduates is captious arsenic clubs combat the Premier League's nett and sustainability rules, those income person been immense for City being capable to walk and amended their squad.

The dream, of course, is that City's youngsters advancement into and found themselves arsenic archetypal squad players similar Phil Foden, Rico Lewis and Nico O'Reilly.

But a fig of City youngsters person been sold connected for steadfast profits and thrived elsewhere. Cole Palmer, Liam Delap, Taylor Harwood-Bellis and Morgan Rogers are main among them.

But what City person besides been fantabulous astatine is installing sell-on clauses into those income which means they nett down the line, too.

Last summertime City sold Tommy Doyle to Wolverhampton Wanderers aft a palmy indebtedness spell astatine Molineux.

However, the erstwhile England under-21 planetary fell retired of favour aft Vitor Pereira replaced Gary O'Neil arsenic manager.

As such, helium has joined ambitious Birmingham City, who are part-owned by NFL large Tom Brady, connected a season-long indebtedness deal.

"I'm truly excited, it's a large nine with large ambition, truthful I'm looking guardant to getting progressive and getting down to work," Doyle told Birmingham's website aft joining the club.

"The mode the nine is going astir its concern is truly awesome and it shows that the nine is lone going 1 way."

The Blues are targeting a 2nd successive promotion and a instrumentality to the Premier League and are expected to beryllium assertive successful the transportation market.

Should they marque that indebtedness woody into a imperishable deal, City are said to person a 50 per cent sell-on clause connected immoderate aboriginal transfer.

They volition beryllium watching the 23-year-old's advancement astatine St Andrew's with a keen involvement this season.

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