LONDON (Reuters) - It is fair to say Ivan Toney's route to be regarded as one of the best striker's in English soccer has been a circuitous one around some of the country's least fashionable staging posts.
At the age of 27, however, the former Newcastle United reject had finally proved those who doubted his talent wrong and his career seemed set to ignite.
It is a huge blow to Premier League club Brentford, for whom he has scored 20 league goals this season -- a total bettered only by Erling Haaland and Harry Kane. But having worked so hard to rise through the ranks, Toney must now overcome another hurdle in a career moulded far away from the pristine training grounds of England's elite clubs.
After scoring 13 goals in 60 appearances he was spotted and subsequently signed by Premier League club Newcastle United in 2015. It looked like being his big break. Toney was finally off-loaded by Newcastle in 2018 -- joining Peterborough United in move that transformed his career.
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