Warrington Town’s hottest prospect, Dylan Vassallo, has penned a contract with the club.
Vassallo, 19, has been attracting interest from Premier League and Football League clubs after catching the eye of onlooking scouts with his performances for the Yellows last season.
Brought to the club by manager Paul Carden, who signed him after he impressed during a trial game while at Tranmere, Vassallo was one of the shining lights of a youthful side that dragged itself in to the Evo-Stik Premier League play-off race before eventually finishing a credible 10th in the club’s first ever season at that level.
Carden said: “For us to get him on a contract is brilliant. Not just because we’re sort of tying up a player, I don’t look at it like that, I look at it as an opportunity to work with a player who is an asset to the club, who wants to be at the club and who looks at his future and says I want to play here, and I want to get my move based on how I’m playing for Warrington, rather than going here, there and everywhere on trial.
“I said to him there aren’t many players who get deals on the back of a trial, they get moves from playing first team football, and for him to commit to us and for Toby (club chairman) and myself to commit to him, shows a trust and a confidence in each other that we’ll move forward.
“Some of the stuff he can do with the ball is unbelievable. People have seen it at top levels at Premier League clubs where he’s been on trial lately and it was good he went into those places on trial, because he’s seen that there were players playing at those levels that he was actually better than.
“He’s a top young talent, he’s not 20 yet, and I believe he’ll go a long way in the game.
“I think with a good pre-season in him and playing with some mixed and tough opposition along the way, and with the experience he’s had going into the bigger clubs, I think he’s in a good place.
“We’ll look after him, he knows that, but he’s a good kid and I think going in to those places has made him realise that he can have a big career in football, and hopefully we’re going to give him the platform to enable him to do that.”
Meanwhile, the club has invited all players that finished the season back for pre-season training with the view to earning new deals, with the exception of Steven Gillespie and Danny Ventre, who have moved on. Winger Scott Harries has also left the club to join Lancaster City.
