Aberdeen sell Fletcher Boyd to Villa for ‘a significant undisclosed fee’.

The 17-year-old scored in each of his first two Dons appearances at the end of the 2023-24 season. Aberdeen have grudgingly agreed to trade attacker Fletcher Boyd to Aston Villa for “a significant undisclosed fee.”

The 17-year-old, who scored in his first two Dons appearances at the end of the 2023-24 season, will join the Premier League club’s academy awaiting the outcome of the FIFA minor’s application.

Boyd joined Aberdeen in 2017 and has made a few appearances off the bench since Jimmy Thelin was appointed manager last summer.

Steven Gunn, Pittodrie’s director of football, said that the club has obtained a sell-on provision in the contract.

“Fletcher is not one we had planned or wanted to sell at this time, but we’ve had to take this approach based on the circumstances we found ourselves in,” Gunn said on the team’s official website.

“It was made very clear to us that Fletcher wanted to pursue this opportunity and that signing any contract extension beyond the less than two years remaining on his current agreement would be extremely unlikely.”

“As a result, we believed that now was the best time to move him, not only to maximise our value in the immediate term, but also to ensure that AFC has huge potential upside in the future if Fletcher develops as we all hope he will.

“We have already outlined publicly the enormous issues confronting not only Aberdeen, but nearly all Scottish teams in this area.

We have made improvements to our transition phase strategy and will closely monitor the results in the coming months and years.

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