PARIS -- AS Monaco have signed 16-year-old Lyon striker Willem Geubbels for a transfer fee of â¬20 million ($23.17m), the Ligue 1 clubs announced on Tuesday.
Geubbels, who has scored 12 goals in 21 games in France's youth teams up to under-18 level, made his Ligue 1 debut last season aged 16 years, one month and seven days, becoming the first player born in the 21st century to play in Ligue 1.
"The arrival of Willem Geubbels is part of our ambition to develop the best European talent," Monaco CEO Vadim Vasilyev was quoted as saying on the club website on Tuesday.
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