Championship starlet Alex Scott should have a future at an elite Premier League club amid interest from Tottenham Hotspur, Wolves and Leeds United, Bristol City team-mate Kai Naismith says on the Open Goal podcast.
They don’t call him the ‘Guernsey Grealish’ just for the purposes of alliteration.
19-year-old Scott is more of an orthodox central midfielder than a player who does his best work off the flanks, but the way Bristol City’s number seven glides and floats away from opposition defenders is certainly reminiscent of Manchester City’s £100 million record signing.
Could Tottenham sign Bristol City starlet Alex Scott
“He’s deadly. A few clubs bid for him,” explains Naismith. “(Scott is) a little old-school, box-to-box. Like a (Steven) Gerrard kind. Obviously I don’t want to make that comparison, he’s got a long way to go.
“He’s tall enough, he’s maybe six foot, he can run all day, hard in the tackle, really good on the ball. He’s different class.
“He reminds me of when Grealish was in the Champ. He lets people get tight to him, and then runs away as if they weren’t even there.”
Scott has five assists and one goal in the Championship this season. The raw statistics do not do the teenager’s influence at Ashton Gate justice; Scott resembling a readymade Premier League footballer swaggering and slaloming his way through the second-tier.
According to talkSPORT, Wolves and Bournemouth are interested. As are a Tottenham side who have a track record of signing some of the EFL’s most exciting young talent; albeit with rather mixed results. Scott is valued at around £25 million. Leeds and Leicester City, CBS Sports, are also in the mix.
And former Luton and Wigan ace Naismith admits he would not be surprised to see his sashaying, scheming team-mate join a club of the size and stature of Spurs.
“His past five or six games, he’s been tremendous,” Naismith adds. “I can honestly see him going to a top four or five team in the Prem.”
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