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Compensation agreed for McGinty

Sat 04 Jul, 02:22 PM


Charlton have received an undisclosed compensation package from Manchester United for 15-year-old defender Sean McGinty.

The Republic of Ireland Under-17 international was offered scholarship terms with the south-east London club this summer having been at The Valley for the past three years, but with United showing a strong interest he has decided on a switch to the Premier League champions.

Despite the centre-half not officially having a contract with Charlton, the two clubs have come to an agreement which includes additional payments depending on McGinty's success with United.

Charlton chairman Richard Murray told the club's official website: "To have a club like Manchester United tracking our youth players clearly shows the quality that our academy is currently producing.

"Of course, nothing would have made us happier than Sean coming through the ranks and representing our first team, and our coaches had high hopes for him. We did our utmost to persuade him to stay. But equally, joining such a big Premier League club is obviously an attractive prospect, and Sean and his family made it clear that they wanted to move north to United.

"Manchester United have behaved entirely honourably throughout the process and I'd like to thank them for that."

 

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  1. shame we've lost another promising kid, but i guess­ i cant blame him for wanting to go to utd. good luck­ to him, and hopefully can make us some cash in the­ future.

    From Paul, on Mon 6 Jul 5:32PM

  2. I thought it was McGinty's Bar (Early Edition)

    From Angelos, on Sat 4 Jul 3:33PM

  3. the future for United looks great. so many promising­ youngsters.

    From aleksicn93, on Sat 4 Jul 1:21PM

  4. we english champs and our team were improving towards­ end of season anderson and fletcher started playing­ well together berba improved ten fold , we just signed­ owen for nothing who is as god as tevez and if he gets­ his form back is along way better than tevez, also­ signed valencia so now we have nani, vaencia and tosic­ to fight over places not fogetting park of course, so­ we should go after these young players in fact lets­ sign 50 of them so even if half fall short we will­ still end u with a great english team and about 100mil­ profit on top that

    From Jimmyrice man u are champs again, on Sat 4 Jul 11:43AM

  5. kuledx you are right they are the future of football

    From faiz_liman, on Sat 4 Jul 11:42AM

  6. TR they are the futre of english football
    The possible­ next ronaldo
    The next beckenbaur?
    Or the next paul­ scholes.
    Either way united always chose the right team.

    From kuledX, on Sat 4 Jul 11:28AM

  7. Good to see the youth.

    From kuledX, on Sat 4 Jul 11:26AM
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    who the hells he

    From TR, on Sat 4 Jul 11:23AM
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