Quiz! Can you name the 14 previous Golden Boy award winners?

From Manchester City goal-grabber Gabriel Jesus to French superstar Kylian Mbappe, via a few longer shots (Reece Oxford probably needs a bit more, erm, seasoning) - the list of 25 nominees for this year’s Golden Boy award has been released.

To be eligible, a player has to be under the age of 21 and playing top-tier European club football. The inaugural award was given in 2003 and some fine young stars have been buoyed by victory in the years since.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.