The name Mohamed-Ali Cho is unlikely to mean much to Everton fans, save the ones who religiously follow the youth sectors at the club.
At 16-years-old and having come nowhere near the first-team picture, never mind the Under 21s, few will know much of the youngster who departed the club last summer.
He could, though, be a name that comes back to haunt the Blues in years to come if his latest move is anything to go by.
Ouest-France explain that the 16-year-old has just signed a professional contract at French side Angers, and in the process, become the youngest ever player to do so in France.
Born in France in 2004, the young forward joined Everton at 11, playing for the various age groups between U12 and U16.
He impressed there too, with Ouest claiming his performances in those teams ‘stirred the lusts’ of ‘many large European clubs’.
And unfortunately for Everton, who would have “liked to keep him“, he decided to move on, with the “project they were proposing not what we were looking for” according to his family.
Thus, last summer he departed Goodison Park and took his time finding a new club, which just so happened to be Angers at the end of 2019.
He quickly impressed at the club, starring for their U19s, reserves and in the senior side in various training sessions, so much, so the French side have moved to sign him up to a pro deal ahead of the competition, breaking records in the process.
They’re hoping for big things too, with comparisons to Allan Saint-Maximin and Nicolas Pépé already being made.
Everton will certainly be hoping that he doesn’t end up anything like those two, or this will be another youngster to add to the long list of players they’ve lost down the years.
