Exclusive: Man City have not agreed £2m fee for ‘Turkish Donarrumma’ Berke Ozer but they are scouting 16-year-old keeper
Manchester City were reported to have reached an agreement with Altinordu to transfer Berke Ozer yesterday in the British press.
Sportswitness claimed that Ozer would join City from Altinordu for a £2 million transfer fee when he turns 18.
The story was later picked up and also published in the Sun.
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Berke’s agent Omer Koray Uzun has revealed to Turkish-Football that the reports are false and that no transfer fee has been agreed with City.
Uzun did confirm that City in additional to several other clubs have been scouting the 16-year-old keeper.
“I heard about the rumour but there is no agreement or transfer taking place,” Uzun said.
“Manchester City and several clubs were scouting him at the Under-17 European Championships, this must be were the rumour stems from”
This is not the first time City have been linked with the rising star dubbed the Turkish Donnarumma.
Eren Sarigul of Turkish-Football recently wrote an article for ESPN stating that City have been keeping close tabs on the 16-year-old keeper for well over a season.
City have been scouting Ozer since the 2016 U16 All Star Cup which took place in the Czech Republic according to Turkish-Football sources.
Altinordu Seyit Mehmet Ozkan was quoted last year as saying: “Manchester City and a few German sides want Berke Ozer.”
Ozer has already broken into Altinordu’s first-team squad and is the latest in a long line of promising players to emerge from the academy.
Twenty-year-old Caglar Soyuncu joined Freiburg over the summer and has become a first team regular in the Bundesliga.
Meanwhile 19-year-old Cengiz Under turned out to be one of the transfer of the season for title challenging Basaksehir.
Altinordu have a policy of only playing club-grown players, with the goal of building a 100 percent home-grown squad.
