PREMIER - Wright praises Manchester City youngster Callum Doyle

Callum Doyle, a Manchester City kid, is expected to be a future England international, according to Sunderland defender Bailey Wright.

Doyle was instrumental in City's Under-18 and Under-23 sides winning titles last season, and he has maintained that success while on loan at Sunderland.

"I hadn't really seen them play that often [before they arrived] so you are kind of just trusting the people that are paid to do that job in recruitment," Wright said on Sunderland's crop of talented youngsters, Doyle included.

"Our job as players is just to focus day-to-day on the football pitch, in the dressing room, and to allow them to be their best. I think they have probably been better than anyone expected.

"I think expectations aside, they are just good lads who set high standards every day so it's enjoyable when you have lads like that to work next to. They ask questions, they want to learn and will give suggestions.

"They are only at the start of their careers some of them, so you think I can't wait until I'm retired on my sofa one day and Callum Doyle is captain of England.

"You think of things like that. You can't tell him that - actually you probably could, as a lad he is so humble.

"Sometimes as a player, I still think I'm in my prime at 29, but sometimes you think I'm excited to see where he's going to get to."