Young central midfielder Osman Foyo, who recently netted the winner for the Blues’ U18s as they came from 2-0 down to beat Huddersfield 3-2 in the FA Youth Cup, will formally join Town when the January transfer window opens.

The 18-year-old, who has been with the Blues academy for the last few months on a work experience loan from Norwich City, grabbed the winning goal at the John Smiths Stadium in the fourth minute of the second half of extra-time before being shown a second yellow card and then a red for celebrating by removing his shirt.

Foyo, who is a second-year scholar, was with Chelsea prior to his time with Norwich and can also operate at left-back.

“I signed Osman when I think he was a 13 or 14-year-old at Norwich, so I’ve worked with him for a number of years,” academy manager Dean Wright told TWTD.

“An opportunity came where he didn’t have a future at Norwich and an opportunity arose earlier in the season to take him, probably from my relationship with him and having worked with him over a number of years, we managed to get him to come here and not go elsewhere.

“There was serious interest from a lot of big clubs for him and hopefully when you see the level of player he is, you will understand why that is. Having that connection with people is I think why Osman is with us now.

“He’ll sign officially on 1st January when the window opens, he’s on a youth loan at the moment.

“Norwich have been really supportive with that. There’s not a pathway for him there, so they have not blocked him off having a pathway elsewhere.

“There’s been an opportunity with Osman and it’s an exciting one in terms of being able to add a player of that quality to what we’ve already got.

“The first team already know who he is and he’s had a little bit of exposure training with them, which is great and sells that pathway that we’re [wanting to establish].”

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ronnyd added 18:25 - Dec 9 Hope he learns that if you're on a yellow, don't take your bloody shirt off when you score.
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Bluefox added 19:56 - Dec 9 An interesting one as Liam Gibbs apparently switched to Norwich as he considered he didn't have a pathway with us. Would be interesting to know a bit more about the reason for Foyo's switch. Hope he does as well with us as Gibbs appears to be doing at Norwich.
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Linkboy13 added 19:57 - Dec 9 Leave's a bitter taste in the mouth knowing he's not good enough for the Budgies but comes to us. Hope he proves them wrong.
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Steve_ITFC_Sweden added 20:11 - Dec 9 Linkboy: I'd rather look at it as we're pinching one from them instead of the other way round for once.
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Bluefox added 22:32 - Dec 9 Exactly Steve, they stole one of our best prospects in recent years. Would like to think we have done the same to them!
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Linkboy13 added 09:03 - Dec 10 Completely different set of circumstances Gibbs was an outstanding prospect and we received a fee for him and he's now playing first team football. This lad was not getting game time at Norwich world's apart. Would be nice to see him succeed at Ipswich though.
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Marcus added 14:57 - Dec 10 I see it the other way. Couldn't settle at Norwich but more at home at Ipswich. Ignoring rivalry, it's quite common for players to relaunch better at a new club. How many have left us and built careers elsewhere?
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