{"id":778278,"date":"2026-09-21T23:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778278\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:08:21","slug":"southampton-seal-signing-of-morocco-youth-ace-from-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778278\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton seal signing of Morocco youth ace from Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 17 year old has put pen to paper on a three-year deal until 2029 and will initially link up with Andrew Surman&#8217;s under-18s side at Staplewood.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The London-born attacking midfielder had represented England in earlier age groups, including the under-15s, while he was on the books at Chelsea.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Linton made three appearances for Chelsea&#8217;s under-18s this season, and has been called up to Morocco&#8217;s under-17s ahead of a World Cup in November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Director of group talent strategy Andy Goldie said: &#8220;Yunus is another exciting addition to our PDP programme, providing greater depth of competition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 14: Yunus Linton signs for Southampton FC at Staplewood Campus, Marchwood, on September 14, 2026 in Southampton, England. (Photo by Chris Moorhouse\/Southampton FC via Getty Images)\"\/>Yunus Linton will initially play for the under-18s (Image: Chris Moorhouse \/ Southampton FC)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He is a different profile to what we have in the pathway, and he&#8217;s an exciting young talent who has developed outside the academy system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He had attracted strong interest from other Premier League and European clubs for his signature, so it&#8217;s great credit to our talent recruitment teams.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We were able to win the race for his signature, and we now look forward to supporting the next stages of his development at Staplewood.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Saints beat several clubs to secure the promising talent&#8217;s signature, including Brentford, Monaco and Lille, amongst other European outfits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Academy scouts Nick Brown and Chris Robinson are credited with identifying Linton, before talent acquisition chief Mariela Nisotaki worked the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 17 year old has put pen to paper on a three-year deal until 2029 and will initially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}