Vraket i Pompey – fikk kontrakt hos Bournemouth

Han ble frigitt av Pompey i sommer. Nå har 17-åringen signert med Premier League-klubben Bournemouth.

NYHETER: Samtlige akademispillere – samt førsteårsproffene – på utgående kontrakt ble frigitt av Pompey i sommer. Mest overraskende var det at Koby Mottoh ble frigitt.

Den lynraske backen/vingen har vært mestscorende på akademiet de to siste årene.

Han har også vært linket til flere Premier League-klubber i løpet av de to årene han har vært i Pompey etter å ha kommet fra Arsenals akademi i 2022.

Etter fem førstelagskamper for Pompey – alle cupkamper – var det tiden på Fratton Park over. Koby Mottoh fikk ingen ny kontrakt med Pompey etter 2023/24-sesongen. Opprykket til Championship er kort fortalt hovedårsaken til at han ikke blir satset på videre i Pompey.

SE OGSÅ: Koby Mottohs spillerprofil

 

Bournemouth U21

11. juli signerte Mottoh med Bournemouth hvor han blir en del av deres U21-tropp.

– We’re delighted to bring in Koby and very much look forward to working with him. He has had an excellent grounding in the academies at both Arsenal and Portsmouth and always impressed when he played against us.

– He will have every opportunity to develop his career further with us and we are excited to see how far he can progress, sa Bournemouths akademitrener etter signeringen.

 

John Mousinhos kommentarer etter å ha frigitt Mottoh

«We have decided not to offer Koby a contract on the same thread as some of the other younger lads. Without a doubt, he has been hamstrung by the fact we have been promoted. 

We have gone up another level and could have offered him a deal, kept him around and loaned him out, although I don’t think he would have got a full-time loan. So it was a case of him coming back here to train. That’s fine, but, with the numbers we’ll have next year, we aren’t sure Koby would have developed in a squad where we train every day with 22-24 players and then a smaller training group of lads who can’t get involved in the squad.

We thought the best thing for Koby was to go elsewhere. We aren’t sure where that’s going to be, we’ll try to support him in that. We wouldn’t be surprised if an under-21 side picked him up and gave him that development which we can’t give him at the moment. We make these decisions not just based on the pathway for Koby, we also on whether we think he’s going to be able to make the step up to Pompey’s first-team in the Championship.

‘We live and die by that decision and might be proven wrong, but, at the moment, we don’t think that would be the case. In a weird way, we want Koby to prove us wrong because he’s a really good kid who has been part of the first-team squad this season and done really well for a 17-year-old.

They are difficult decisions to make because a 17-year-old versus the 23-year-old version of Koby could be very, very different. You never know what’s going to go on with the player, but we need to look at it as a whole and ask do we think that, at some point, he’s going to be able to come in and affect the first-team? That’s the skill of it – and sometimes you get them wrong.’