OFFICIAL: Phil Foden extends his contract with Man City until 2024

Manchester City teen Phil Foden has agreed to a new contract which will keep him at the club until 2024, the Premier League champions have announced

Man City have suffered difficult losses among their youth ranks in recent years, as England international Jadon Sancho departed the club to receive an opportunity at Borussia Dortmund and youngster Brahim Diaz looks set to leave for Real Madrid in the summer.

But Man City have now avoided a similar fate with Foden, who has been part of the club's set up since he was eight years old, having locked him down for the next five and a half seasons.

“We are delighted to have secured Phil for the next five and a half years," Man City Director of Football Txiki Begiristain said in a statement.

“He is an outstanding talent and he is Manchester City born and bred so this is where he wants to play his football.

“Under Pep [Guardiola] and with the players we have here around him, he is in the best place possible to develop as a player.”

Foden came up through the Man City youth ranks and made his debut for the senior side in November 2017 against Feyenoord in the Champions League. He earned his first start in the same competiton a month later.

This season, Foden has made eight Premier League appearances off the bench for the club, up from five all of last season, while receiving a pair of starts in the Carabao Cup.

It was in one of those cup starts the teenager bagged his only first-team goal for Man City, in their 3-0 victory over Oxford in September.

Guardiola has spoken previously of his admiration of the Stockport-born teenager and his desire to aid Foden as he looked to make the step up into the club's first team.

Foden also marks the club retaining another highly-regarded player, as Raheem Sterling signed through 2023 in November.