Man City defender Shea Charles responds to Borussia Dortmund transfer links

Manchester City's Northern Ireland international Shea Charles is giving no thought to transfer rumours linking him with Borussia Dortmund - but does admit he could head out on loan next season.

Charles, 19, is captain of City's under-21 side and is a regular for the youth team this season. He often trains with the first team and has featured on the bench for City on a handful of occasions, but is yet to make his professional club debut. Despite that, he has six senior Northern Ireland caps, including two starts this week against San Marino and Finland.

His status as a full international appears to be attracting some interest, with one report this week suggesting Dortmund were monitoring the teenager.

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However, Charles dismissed any talk of an exit for now, while admitting that he may instead head out on loan next season.

“I don’t really know too much about it myself,” he said. “I’m just trying to focus on City at the moment. That’s who I’m playing for, that’s the main thing at the moment.

“[A loan move is] always a possibility. The City Football Group is very good for players that need first-team football, so yeah, it is a possibility; I’m not sure at the moment.”

Charles is in a relatively-unique position in that he is yet to make a senior club appearance, but is seemingly part of Northern Ireland's plans moving forward. That, he says, is a very useful thing for his development.

He explained: “It’s completely different to what I play. You see players like [Finland striker, Teemu] Pukki, the ball comes in to him and he flicks it on, it’s almost impossible to stop. It’s just little things like that. I have got to try to work on that and