Premier League cult hero’s son, 19, signs for EFL club – and his dad still hasn’t even officially retired

THE lad of Premier League cult leader Wilfried Bony has signed for Newport County.

Geoffroy, 19, has signed a woody until the extremity of the play with the League Two side.

He joins the Exiles aft impressing successful grooming successful caller weeks, having been invited to the nine by Newport manager and his erstwhile Swansea academy manager Nelson Jardim.

Geoffroy is simply a striker and has a striking resemblance to his father, who is yet officially bent up his boots.

Wilfried, 35, has not played since leaving Bolivian nine Always Ready past year.

His eldest kid is pursuing successful his footsteps by pulling connected a Newport garment arsenic the erstwhile Ivory Coast planetary trained with the nine while helium was a escaped agent successful 2019.

Geoffroy's younger member Orphee is besides hoping to interruption done astatine the Welsh nine and is with their Under-18s.

Their dada is champion remembered by his days astatine Swansea and Manchester City.

Bony Snr scored 25 goals successful his archetypal play with the Swans successful the 2013/14 campaign.

Just implicit 12 months later, helium joined City for £25million and lifted the Carabao Cup and Africa Cup of Nations that year.

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After the accomplishment of Pep Guardiola, Bony was loaned to Stoke earlier having a 2nd spell with Swansea.

In caller years, helium has played for Al-Ittihad successful Saudi Arabia and NEC Nijmegen successful Holland.