Derby County trio Max Bird, Jason Knight and Festy Ebosele have been selected on a list of the 21 brightest young talents in the EFL.
Sky Sports and Not The Top 20 Podcast have teamed up to create EFL 21 Under 21 - a one hour show on Sky Sports Football listing the EFL’s 21 best players aged 21 or under which will air for the first time at 6pm on Friday 4th February.
No other club has more representatives on the list than Derby County.
With the likes of Jude Bellingham, Jarrod Bowen, James Maddison, Ollie Watkins, Harry Maguire and many other of the country’s top talents graduating through the EFL in recent years, we are looking to highlight those who could be following in their footsteps.
The criteria of those available for selection is:
* Has to have been born in or since 1st January 2000
* Made nine or fewer Premier League appearances
* Can’t be on loan from a non-EFL side
* Can’t have moved in a ‘big money’ transfer
The one-hour show will be hosted by Not The Top 20’s George Elek and Ali Maxwell, as they analyse most of the 21 players with selected clips and analysis.
Players not featured in the one hour show will still be covered with specific videos on skysports.com and on Sky Sports social media channels.