Manchester City youngster David Faupala has become the latest in a host of players to move on loan to Holland this summer, sealing a season-long transfer to NAC Breda from The Blues. It represents a chance for the young Frenchman to kick on in professional football after making his senior City debut last season.
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He joins four other Blues who are already at Breda, including Kean Bryan, Ashley Smith-Brown, Brandon Barker and Thomas Agyepong. This raft of loanees heading to the Eredivisie is the result of a new deal struck between the two clubs, offering development opportunities to some of City’s most talented youngsters, a group Faupala certainly showed last season he fits into.
Little was expected of the 19-year-old striker when he and a number of other youngsters were given their debuts in an FA Cup tie with Chelsea at the end of February, where Manuel Pellegrini sacrificed his chances of winning the cup in order to preserve chances of progression against Dynamo Kyiv in the Champions League and a victory over Liverpool in the League Cup Final a week later (he was vindicated when both of those events subsequently came to pass). However, Faupala and the other youngsters, including Tosin Adarabioyo and Aleix Garcia, acquitted themselves in that game, with the former Lens forward netting their only goal of the game in a 5-1 rout at Stamford Bridge.
It looks unlikely that Pep Guardiola will regularly play more than one up top this season, which makes chances for Faupala even more limited, and has joined Enes Unal, another highly-rated young striker who joined at the same time, out on loan in Holland until the end of the campaign.
