According to Football Insider, Leeds United have officially completed the signing of 16-year-old winger Stuart McKinstry from Scottish Premiership side Motherwell.
It was reported here on The72 earlier this year that Leeds United had agreed a deal to sign Motherwell starlet Stuart McKinstry this summer, agreeing terms of a deal with both the club and the player, who also completed a medical at the Whites’ Thorp Arch training ground.
Now, it has been claimed by Football Insider that the deal has been made official, with McKinstry completing a move and joining the club on a permanent basis ahead of the new season.
Premier League outfit Southampton were also keen to bring in the youngster this summer, but it is Leeds United who he has opted to join.
Some details of the youngster’s detail with his new club have also emerged. McKinstry joins the club on a scholarship deal, which will then become a professional contract when he turns 17 in September of this year, tying him down to the club for three years. The deal includes a clause in which Motherwell will be entitled to a cut of the money received should Leeds move on the youngster in the future.
Leeds will pay £400,000 to bring McKinstry to the club this summer, where he will link up with their youth sides – which has seen a number of the club’s top youngster’s grow into first-team footballers over the course of the past few seasons, with the likes of Jack Clarke and Jamie Shackleton flourishing under Marcelo Bielsa.
An exciting, tricky winger, McKinstry is one of Scottish football’s most highly rated youngsters an has been tipped to make a big future for himself in the game. He leaves Motherwell without making a senior appearance for the club, but he made the bench at Christmas time of 2018 for a league match against Kilmarnock shortly after his 16th birthday.
