England star Ella Toone shut down Phil Foden’s cheeky try and get her to go away Manchester United for bitter rivals Metropolis.
Toone and Metropolis ahead Foden teamed up with Soccer Past Borders and JD Sports activities to open a brand new group soccer pitch in Moss Aspect, Manchester to assist present extra alternatives for younger folks to play the sport.
However Foden couldn’t resist a cheeky try and get Toone to swap the reds for the blue half of Manchester.
Ella Toone teamed up with Phil Foden to open a brand new group soccer pitch in Moss Aspect
The Manchester Metropolis star could not resist providing Toone a contract to hitch the Etihad
‘There’s a contract there so that you can signal for Metropolis, Foden joked as he held up a chunk of paper. ‘She needs to play for Metropolis doesn’t she? She must!’
Die-hard United fan Toone noticed the humorous facet however was fast to answer ‘no likelihood!’
Toone, who launched her personal YouTube channel this week, was beforehand a part of Metropolis’s academy earlier than leaving to hitch United once they re-launched their girls’s crew in 2018.
Toone and Foden then went up in opposition to one another as they managed 5 a-side groups in a contest after the brand new pitch was opened, with Toone’s facet taking a 1-0 win.
Toone noticed the humorous facet, saying there was ‘no likelihood’ of her leaving her beloved United
Talking to Sportsmail final 12 months, Toone stated: ‘Clearly I’m a United fan however I knew how a lot of a superb crew Metropolis have been and I needed to progress in my profession. I used to be coaching day by day with high gamers, the likes of Lucy Bronze, Toni Duggan and individuals who I seemed as much as. Then I used to be in a position to play 90 minutes on the weekend and put into apply the whole lot that I’d accomplished in coaching that week.’
When United lastly re-formed, they have been eager to recruit gamers who had beforehand represented their Centre of Excellence. Toone didn’t should be requested twice.
‘Casey [Stoney] reached out and I bit her hand off as quickly as I knew there was a Manchester United girls’s crew forming. I needed to return again residence and play for them. That’s all I ever needed.’
