Former Leeds United whizkid George Swan has a career now as an agent.
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Former Leeds United whizkid George Swan is in a position he did not expect to be in at 22-years-old, beginning a non-playing career.
The Mirror report that Swan has become Britain’s youngest football agent, having been forced to retire from the game due to injury.
Manchester City paid a six-figure fee to sign Swan from Leeds United when he was just 14-years-old, which The Mirror claims was £500,000.
Swan never saw first team action for City at competitive level, with going on a pre-season tour as close as he came.
Touted by their club website as a ‘commanding centre-back with the ability to read the game and his strengths lie in winning the ball in the air and his timing of tackles’, injuries meant Swan was eventually released.
He signed with Wolves, where he never featured, and managed to eventually play competitively for non-league York City before calling it quits.
He said: “I was supposed to be a hot prospect. When you are 14 years of age and City spend £500,000 on you, you don’t think seven years later you are going to be finished in the game.”
Swan is now beginning as an agent, already tied in with an established firm, and says he hopes to make a better future for others as well as himself.
Certainly this was not the way he predicted his career would go, but it could be a fascinating journey all the same.
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