Except this time we won't get 50m for him.

It'll be a shame if true but hard to compete when the big clubs come sniffing. Not that I think it's the right move for such a young player, surely it's better to try and get some games under his belt before getting swallowed up by a big club where it's easy to get lost amongst other top prospects. Time will tell I guess.

this is non-comparable to Bostock imo. We nicked him from Millwall and he was born in Italy so no particular surprise he has a European view of his next step in football if that's his heritage.

From what I've read Raiola has a 1-year deal with the lad, which means it's obviously to find him a new club pronto.

Yes thanks. It’s your prerogative to believe that if you wish.

There have been loads of 16 year old breaking through in other teams. Never here, certainly not recently.
For people saying Atta isn't any good - is he worse than Luka, McArthur, Kouyate, Schlupp? I guarantee he can pass better than them. As for physical - don't make me laugh. These guys wouldn't pass a physical.

Red and Blue Army!

According to those that watch the development squad regularly there aren't any players there good enough for our first team and if the two that were loaned out to Tranmere and Torquay were good enough they would have been loaned to clubs in higher divisions.

My understanding is that the current under 23 squad contains players that might make it at a lower level plus those that won't make it at all but the future is with the under 18 squad some of whom are highly thought of and I really can't see Parish spending all that money on upgrading the academy and employing a manager that won't utilise the players as the whole idea of the academy is to save on transfer fees in the future

Looking at our squads, Atta isn't even in the U18s. Should he have been? No idea. Our U18s (and apparently the younger squads) are exciting prospects, We will inevitably lose some who either can't wait to progress or are star-struck by bigger clubs purportedly interested in them.

Once we start seeing players from the U18s etc. progressing to the first team squad and staying there, more youngsters may be prepared to stay, but that is probably a couple of years or so down the line. We just have to hope we can retain our PL status until we see the fruit from the Academy investment. Touch and go imo. Hope Atta makes a good choice when he does leave.