There’s no point beating around the bush: Jayden Braaf is already being compared to Jadon Sancho and he will be for a good while yet.



Manchester City have another incredible talent on their hands and, after watching him run down the wing for their youth teams over the past 18 months, nobody could doubt that he has the potential to go to the top.



“He could be an £80 million player one day,” a City academy source tells The Athletic of the 17-year-old. “He could be a Sancho-level player. If you compare Braaf with any winger his age, they won’t be as good as Braaf.”



City picked him up from PSV Eindhoven in May 2018, where he had shown an incredible ability to beat a man. From a standing start, on the run or with a stupefying first touch, he can ruin a defender in the blink of an eye. For both PSV and City’s youth teams he has been a consistent source of goals and assists. He plays on both wings and, as reluctant as...