[whitestones]

who is this 15year old John Bostock wizkid playing for Crystal Palace and why is he grabbing the attention of so many big premiership clubs

http://tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=64046

[kent paul]

He has the potential to probably become the best young football player to come out of England in the last 25 years and i include Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney in that list as well because potentialy he is that good, every club in England wants him, Barcelona wanted to buy him when he was 12 years old but he turned them down because he did not want to go abroad at that age, he is a left footed creative midfielder, and he is alot better football player than Francesc Fabregas was at that age, and trust me when i say this, if he can some how manage to, avoid major injurys over the next few years, he can achieve anything he wants to because he could be that good as a football player IMO

[Bluebirds Boyo]

Don't you think you're exaggerating slightly?

[kent paul]

No i do not, you will see that i am right in a few years time, injury permitting of coarse

[Bluebirds Boyo]

I saw him at Ninian Park a few weeks ago and he didn't look an average player in an extremely-limited Palace side. Nothing he did grabbed my attention throughout the ninety-minutes whatsoever.

I don't doubt that he'll become a solid-to-good Championship player, hell, maybe even lower Premiership, but to say he'll be better than Gascoigne and Rooney is way off the mark in my opinion, but each to their own, I suppose.

[spal]

Seriously this guy is a superstar in the making. You seem to have extremely high expectations for a 15 year old mixing it with championship teams. Most are still playing U16's football

[Bluebirds Boyo]

Someone in this thread believes he'll become the best footballer to come out of England in a quarter of a century and I'm the one with high expectations of him?

No one here knows how he'll turn out; in ten years he could be playing in non-league or for Real Madrid. I'd wait at least two or three years before making any outrageous predictions on his future to be honest.

[spal]

There are two different things though. POTENTIALLY, he could be one of the best players to come out of England for god knows how long. REALISTICALLY, at the moment he is a 15 year old playing in the championship easily holding his own.

I have watched in the last year or so in the youth and its easy to see he is a class above anything i have ever seen at his age. Very exciting if he signs for palace in January. Im sure if we were talking about Aaron Ramsey you would have a slightly different opinion :P

[Bluebirds Boyo]

Not really; so far I've been no more impressed by Ramsey than Bostock.

People nowadays seem to believe that if you throw a child too young to legally drive into first team football at this level and he can pass the ball accurately more than five yards then he's the next Ronaldinho.

[jlmatthews]

Rumored to be off to Spurs...