Deese Kasinga: What happens when the Premier League academy dream dies?
By Miriam Walker-KhanBBC Sport
The brutal reality of Premier League academies: Deese Kasingaâs story
Deese Kasinga was 17 years old and doing a gym session with some of the academy players at Newcastle United when he was called in to a meeting about his future.
As he came back out of the room, there were cheers and questions from his older team-mates who knew what the meeting was for - and were desperate to know the details of his exciting new professional contract.
But Kasinga had just been told he was being released from Newcastle s academy. His Premier League dream began to slip away.
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