Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea and Crystal Palace eyeing up Championship wonderkid

Chris Rigg continues to pull plentifulness of attraction acknowledgment to his performances for Sunderland, with Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Crystal Palace each reportedly interested.

The 17-year-old has already racked up plentifulness of acquisition with the Black Cats having made his nonrecreational debut un January 2023 astatine conscionable 15.

The midfielder made 21 Championship appearances past season, though astir of those were from the substitutes’ bench, but this run helium has been a regular successful the starting XI.

24 of his 26 league appearances person been from the start, yielding 4 goals, arsenic Sunderland propulsion for promotion to the Premier League.

That bid for promotion was boosted connected Monday nighttime erstwhile the Mackems bushed Middlesborough 3-2 astatine the Riverside.

The Sun reports that Manchester United scouts were successful attendance to proceed to way the advancement of Rigg, who they have been credited with an involvement successful for immoderate months already.

The study states that determination is plentifulness of involvement successful the teen from the Premier League, portion Real Madrid person adjacent been touted arsenic a imaginable destination for the youngster from Hebburn.

Rigg, who has been capped up to Under-18 level by England, is nether declaration astatine the Stadium of Light until 2027.

The Black Cats are 4th successful the Championship, conscionable 3 points disconnected an automatic promotion spot, truthful person each accidental of a instrumentality to the Premier League this season.

It whitethorn beryllium that they request to execute promotion to support clasp of their young star, but if not they volition beryllium capable to currency successful connected their academy product.

Sunderland manager Regis Le Bris has praised the teen for maturity good beyond his years, telling Sky Sports earlier this season: ‘I don’t cognize however helium has that maturity, immoderate players don’t person that astatine 30.

‘He wants to larn and has the property to play successful beforehand of this crowd.

‘I don’t deliberation that property is simply a problem. You tin person a precocious level of maturity astatine 17 and you tin person a debased level of maturity astatine 30, truthful it depends connected the property of the subordinate and Chris Rigg is simply a bully awesome of what we privation to make and what we privation to physique arsenic a team, arsenic a club.

‘He inactive wants to improve, helium inactive wants to recognize the crippled and if we tin stock each these ideas, astatine the extremity we tin consciousness the vigor arsenic a group, arsenic a unit, arsenic a squad adjacent against a beardown opponent.’

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