Foden inks new Manchester City contract through 2024

Manchester City have safeguarded the long-term future of playmaker Phil Foden, ensuring he doesn't slip through the Premier League champions' grasp like Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho did.

Foden, 18, is yet to start a Premier League match for his boyhood club, but committed to a contract on Monday which runs until 2024. He will stay to fight for a first-team place rather than seek regular minutes elsewhere like Sancho, and, if City are unable to tie him down to fresh terms, Brahim Diaz.

"We are delighted to have secured Phil for the next five-and-a-half years," said director of football Txiki Begiristain.

"He is an outstanding talent and he is Manchester City born and bred so this is where he wants to play his football.

"Under (manager) Pep (Guardiola) and with the players we have here around him, he is in the best place possible to develop as a player."

Despite his relatively meager senior experience, Foden already boasts winners' medals in the Premier League, League Cup, Community Shield, and Under-17 World Cup with England's Young Lions. He scored his first professional goal for City in September's 3-0 defeat of Oxford United in the League Cup.