Three Wonderkids Your Team Should Be Scared Of This Season
After throwing three big names out there a few weeks ago, FourFourTwo's very own Joe Donnohue returns with Three MORE Wonderkids Ready To Explode In The Premier League This Season! From a young striker ready to star, to new signings finding their Premier League potential, here's everything you need to know on the latest episode of 'The Boy's A Bit Special.' football premierleague wonderkids Buy the latest FourFourTwo magazine here ➡️ https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/FourFourTwo/author/B0GSRRXJWK?ref=srnttsrchlnk1&qid=1786984945&sr=8-1&shoppingPortalEnabled=true ⚽ FourFourTwo - At the heart of football since 1994 - in print - online - on video ⚽ 📰 SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3ErE4ai 💻 WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/3GFXMC0 Follow FourFourTwo on: Twitter/X: https://x.com/FourFourTwo?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fourfourtwouk/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fourfourtwoofficial Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FourFourTwo/?locale=enGB 📥 Sign up below for 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗔-𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 @FourFourTwo's FREE weekday newsletter 🤝: Transfers 🛒: Deals 🎥: Videos 💡: Quizzes ✍️: Opinion ➕: 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 👇 https://t.co/Yn3AQUt7b6
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A few weeks ago, I was brave enough to stick my neck out and bring you three wonder kids I think are worth watching in the Premier League this season. You didn't seem to absolutely hate the idea, so I'm back with three more. Welcome back to the boys a bit special where we spotlight the best and brightest young players world football has to offer. I'm Joe Donahghue, senior staff writer at 442, and today I've got three more players I can't wait to watch in the Premier League this season. >> THAT'S CROSSED IN TOWARDS MAJO. HE'S SCORED. Born in London in 2009, but raised in Luxembourg, there can't be many kids with that sort of background, except maybe the children with tax exiles. Aston Villa striker Brian Majjo developed at Luxembburggish Clubs before joining Frenchside Mets as a 14-year-old. He became the club's youngest ever debutant in Lia at 16 years and 217 days old, and before long, he was a villa player, officially signing back in January 2026 for about 10 million quid. Internationally, Majio is a bit of an interesting cat. Initially he won three senior caps for Luxembourg but then submitted a request to FIFA to switch nationalities to England who he since represented at youth level. Then after his move to Villa, FIFA blocked them from registering Maju for competitive matches, categorizing the move as an international transfer of an under 18 player. FIFA argued on one hand that his development and senior caps tied him internationally to Luxembourg, but Villa maintained he was an English citizen simply returning to his home country. Anyway, Villa escalated the dispute to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, otherwise known as Cass, and they ruled in Villa's favor. Job done. Unleash the boy. But none of that legal mumbo jumbo is why I'm looking forward to seeing him this season, though. That's exclusively down to the fact he was a complete bull during preseason. And I'm not sure how many people saw that coming this soon. Majio really caught the eye during preseason. As I say, he bagged a brace against, okay, fine, Warsaw. But after that, he was given clearance to play in competitive games. He made his official debut against PSG in the UEFA Super Cup. What did he do? >> THAT'S CROSSED IN TOWARDS MAJO. HE'S SCORED. >> The youngest ever goal scorer in the Super Cup. >> Of course, he scored the equalizer on the stroke of Halime. Considering the fact that Villa's squad has been gutted this summer, Majou could play some serious minutes even before he turns 18 in January. Villa started their first game of the season, that disastrous 4-nil defeat at Brighton with Emmy Buendia up front after Ollie Watkins went on strike. With the England man now in Saudi Arabia, Nicholas Jackson needing time to find his feet, no goals scored from their opening three league games, and not a whole load of other options. It is, in 442's opinion, Majo time once he returns from injury. Another interesting anecdote about the Villa striker, he's the son of former EFL striker Guy Majio, who had similar registration issues in English football back when he was a player. Major Senior had trials at Stoke, Port Vale, and Bristol City after scoring for fun in non-league, then bizarrely was offered a trial at Bocker Juniors. But get this, a day before he was supposed to fly to Argentina, he received a work permit and was able to sign for Bristol City. Ashton Gay or Lab Bomba, you tell me. Unfortunately, Major Senior was later given a three and a half year prison sentence in 2016, and as far as we can tell, has been on the run ever since. Brian though has the world at his feet and will be given opportunities to make a name for himself in English football this season and that is why he's one of my Premier League 2627 want to WATCHES >> IT'S THE POST THEY'VE ONLY WON IT >> I've actually spoken about Caleb Yanki on this channel before although that was when I was previewing England's opponents at the World Cup is a Ghanaian international and even scored the winner for them against Panama in their opener at this summer's tournament now he's signed for Coventry now I don't know if we can go back into the 442 archives and pluck out grainy footage of me from a few months ago saying he's Premier League ready. It would make me look very smart if we could. Here's some dingbat with a Jordy accent. There's also a one to watching Caleb Ureni purely from a transfer perspective. Scouts that I speak to in the game have mentioned him on several occasions saying he's got the tools to one day become a future Premier League player. Oh, hang on. There's here's something else I said about him. Yureni is a great athlete and does it all in the middle of the park. Wins possession, plays passes, tackles, hassles opponents. He's a useful grafter to have in year 11. Which is why for Garner, he's often played at right back. Sounds like a pretty shrewd signing on commentaries part then. But why didn't he go to an established Premier League club if he's so good, Joe? Well, 442 subscriber, thank you for such an informed and politely framed question. I'm going to tell you. He's joined the Sky Blues straight from FC Nordland, the Danish Super Liga club. And let's take a look at players who've made similar moves from Denmark's top flight straight to the Premier League. Victor Christensen to Leicester City in 2023. Daniel Aget to Liverpool in 2006. Okay, that one was a success, but that was 20 years ago. Alexander Solot to Crystal Palace in 2018. Not a good move, even if he's a much better player now. You could probably say that transfer was too much too soon. Frank Ona to Brenford in 2021. Meh. Now also at Coventry, actually. Ibrahim Osman, also from Nordland and the right to dream pipeline to Brighton 2024. Meh. Still has a lot to prove. Andreas Cornelius to Cardiff City in 2013. Nope. Brian Ovo to Everton 2012. Probably a success on the balance of things, but nobody's running around the house with a rolled [music] up pair of socks pretending they're Brian Ovo, are they? And finally, Yancuba Ma to Newcastle in 2023. A success, but not at Newcastle. Basically, what I'm trying to say is if you're going straight from Denmark to the Premier League, the jump is quite considerable. and even the most imposing center forwards like Cornelius and Sollet have found it tough. Ureni thankfully has the physical tools to mix it in the Premier League right [music] away. But as he found in the opener against Arsenal, it's a different beast this Premier League. Personally, I think Yuranki's boxto-box ability will stand Coventry and himself in really goodstead at certain points this season. There'll almost definitely be a counterattacking goal the Sky Blue scored that has Yanki contributing. Whether it be winning possession back in their own half, carrying it up field, or even applying the finishing touch at the other end, he's got a proper engine and that's really why I like him so much. As with many of the shouts in this miniseries, it's potential that I'm looking for. And Yuranki has bags of it. Judging him on whether he's a success or failure is much more nuanced than if he were a striker, for example. Because if Majio bangs in a load of goals for Villa, but Villa do terribly, you can quite easily separate the two. In Yureni's [music] position, if Coventry go down, which for promoted teams is always likely, he could be deemed a failure. Not in my eyes, though. Never in mine. Not my Caleb. >> You thought we were leaving Coventry, didn't you? No, we're staying put. Stay with me because Sadiki Sharif is worth it. I've been wanting to feature Sharief in some capacity in the boys bit special series for quite some time, but for one reason or another, other players have taken priority. So, when I saw he was moving to the Premier League, I thought there was no better opportunity. Wouldn't recommend swapping Istanbul for Coventry Mine, but you know what sort of brochure did they show him? Seriously, he came through an academy, won promotion to League with them in 2023 24. Then his early season breakthrough the following year attracted international attention. He's had injury problems, but having only just turned 19 on decided to sell at a time when his value was at its highest, agreeing a 21 million pound transfer to Fenabachi in January 2026. It was at this point I thought I wouldn't get the chance to feature him in this series because well truthfully I don't know enough about Turkish football to gauge the general standard over there. So unless he scored 20 and 20 I wouldn't have been able to say definitively that he's the Thankfully Coventry scouting department saw the same things I did at Anier and through some arrangement of taking Sharif off Fabach's hands just six or so months after he arrived in Turkey. Now, he hasn't scored a hatful of goals in his career so far, but he is 6'2 inches tall [music] and a real athlete with a really robust way of playing, meaning that he won't be bullied. No means is Sadiki Sharif a sure thing. Out of the three I've picked in this video, he is the one most likely to absolutely crash and burn, making me look like an absolute prat in the process. But he could also be brilliant, and that's what I'm banking on. Remember to like this video and subscribe to the channel for more cuttingedge football journalism, players you've heard of and others you haven't. Stick a comment below to let me know who you're looking forward to watching in the Premier League this season, too. Until next time, bye for now.