Young Dundee goalkeeper Ally Graham is attracting serious Premier League interest.
More and more, young Scottish talent is being poached by top English clubs before they have even got close to a first team call-up here.
The Dee already sold Seb Lochhead to Wolves in the summer for a fee of £300,000 with add-ons on top of that.
While Airdrie are braced to lose twin brothers Cole and Dylan Williams with West Ham and Southampton showing interest.
Graham could be the latest young Scot to head south after impressing in Dundee’s youth teams.
Nottingham Forest to step up Graham interest
Graham has already been on trial at several EPL clubs – namely Newcastle, Southampton, Nottingham Forest and Arsenal – according to The Courier.
And it is now being reported that it is Forest who look set to step up their interest and swoop for the 16-year-old.
A deal was almost done in the summer which would have brought Aaron Donnelly back on loan for another season and taken Graham in the opposite direction, but fell through.
But Forest could now swoop again and get in ahead of other interested clubs.
Graham was most recently down for a four-day trial with Arsenal and has also been with the Scotland under-17s for Euro qualifiers, after playing for the under-16s in the Victory Shield.
Dundee realistic over Premier League interest
As a club, Dundee would prefer their academy to be supplying its best young talent to the first-team.
Currently they have graduates Lyall Cameron, Josh Mulligan and Finlay Robertson as part of Tony Docherty’s squad.
But they also have to be realistic about when big English sides come in.
Academy chief Stephen Wright said: “You obviously want players to stay and get into Dundee’s first team, but I suppose my job is to try and do what’s best for each young player and their family.
“That’s getting a career anywhere, really.
“If it’s going to be England before he’s even touched the first team, that’s a sign of the times.
“English clubs are coming younger and younger, looking at players in Scotland.
“What it does do is show there are good players in the Dundee academy.
“Money comes into it and the clubs decide, but for me and for our coaches, it’s great to see recognition for our young players.
“Obviously, Sebastian [Lochhead] went down to Wolverhampton as well, which is, again, brilliant for us.
“Our younger players in the academy, they see that.
“They see that there’s players in our academy higher up that are moving to English Premier League clubs.
“It’ll give them a little boost as well, and the families.
“We would love to see these players playing for Dundee’s first team, like Josh Mulligan, Lyall Cameron and Fin Robertson are doing now, but again, at the academy, we don’t really have much control over that.”