Football Manager 2022: 10 Goalkeeper Wonderkids You Must Sign

10. James Trafford (Bolton)

James Trafford is a Manchester City player who is currently on loan at Bolton Wanderers, after spending the first half of the current season on loan at Accrington Stanley.

He's immediately made himself a mainstay at the University of Bolton Stadium, starting 15 times in League One. He conceded 12 goals in that, having kept a clean sheet in each of his first four outings for the club. Interestingly, he is the first goalkeeper to accomplish that in Bolton's 148-year-old history.

Football Manager rates the 18-year-old Englishman very highly, with a price range of £6-18 million, although that might be slightly inflated because he is a Man City player. Very strong and athletic, but decent with the ball at his feet, Trafford is perhaps best employed as a traditional GK, with his low eccentricity stopping him from venturing too far from his box.

However, if you like to play with a higher defensive line that builds up play from the back, and want a keeper that can get himself involved, Trafford, being only 18, can easily be retrained into a more modern sweeper-keeper.