Blues sign Ghanaian prospect Kingsford Boakye for Academy

MSK Zilina is a Slovak club which presumably has a development team in Ghana.

So Boakye leaves Ghana age 17 / 18 to join AC Milan's academy in March but is then released in July.

Now signed for us.

And we worry about whether 20-somethings from London will settle in the North West.

Hopefully he does settle and enjoy life. Certainly he plays in the right position as we're very low on quality in wide / attacking areas.

However, sadly I expect if he was exceptional he'd already be playing first-team football somewhere rather than trying to find academy contracts.

You know a lot about foreign players and their ability or lack of it, this lad's deal seems very strange with him being offered a 2½-year contract but Milan let him go after just 3 or 4 months and he's done nothing since last July… he hasn't just come out of Nick, has he?

Perhaps an English speaker and Milan didn't want to bother waiting until he learnt Italian because they had enough very good alternatives. It might have taken a while to try the UK if our government's hostility to immigrants is well known (and I'd imagine the Europeans like to broadcast our many faults in an attempt to overcome the lure of hefty pay packets).