FOOTIE prima Phil Foden nets again — reeling successful a monster carp connected a sportfishing trip.
The Man City and England ace, 24, was thrilled to drawback the 28lb beast astatine a fishery adjacent Lechlade, Gloucs.
In a TikTok video, helium boasted to his fishing spouse — ITV4’s Monster Carp big Neil Spooner, with Phil: “It’s a large one!”
The midfielder, who played successful City’s triumph yesterday, is simply a keen angler and plans to swap shot for sportfishing erstwhile helium retires.
After the Euros, Foden went on a £14-a-day angling vacation connected the borderline of the Cotswolds.
The £200,000-a-week Man City star snubbed exotic destinations fashionable with his Three Lions team-mates to walk 5 days with his dad fishing for carp, catfish, tench, pike and perch.
An onlooker astatine Linear Fisheries successful Witney, Oxfordshire, said: “Phil was blessed arsenic Larry camping retired successful a inexpensive tent,
“He was truthful down to world and was conscionable hell-bent connected trying to onshore himself a carp arsenic the water has immoderate perfectly tremendous ones successful it.
“While his England pals were surviving it up successful posh hotels adjacent to beaches, the astir luxurious happening Phil had connected his vacation was a Portaloo.”
Foden was winding down aft the Euros ahead of rejoining the City squad preparing for the caller season.
He is an avid angler and has boasted astir his large catches on Instagram.
Foden started sportfishing with his dad, Phil Senior, arsenic a lad and said previously: “It’s the cleanable hobby to remainder your legs and person immoderate down time.
Inside Phil Foden's astonishment emotion for fishing
“Probably astir 95 per cent of the shot lads don’t bask it.
“The unusual 1 likes fishing, truthful erstwhile radical find retired they say: ‘what a weird athletics to enjoy’.
“They don’t recognize wherefore you bask it.
“Obviously, they request to spell and effort it.
“I deliberation it’s the cleanable hobby to remainder your legs and person immoderate down time.”
Foden has shared respective of his apical catches connected societal media from his trips to lakes crossed the UK and successful Spain, which was the determination of his biggest drawback yet - a HUGE 130LB Catfish.