Aberdeen have reluctantly agreed to sell attacker Fletcher Boyd to Aston Villa for what the club described as “a significant undisclosed fee”.

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

Boyd joined Aberdeen in 2017 and has featured occasionally off the bench since Jimmy Thelin was appointed manager last summer.

Director of football Steven Gunn said the Pittodrie club have secured a sell-on clause in the deal.

“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 Dons’ website.

“It was made very clear to

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