By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Wolverhampton Wanderers will officially sign midfielder Tommy Doyle in a £4.3million permanent deal on July 1 after the club activated the option in his loan agreement.
Wolves triggered the option this week and 22-year-old Doyle will move officially from Manchester City when the summer transfer window opens.
The 22-year-old has made 30 appearances for Wolves during his season-long loan spell from City.
City had a 50% sell-on clause in the deal and a buy back option.
And Gary O’Neil’s side have taken up the clause to make that move permanent.
Sporting director Matt Hobbs said: “We’ve never seen Tommy as a player on loan, and he hasn’t acted like one.
“He’s gradually earned more minutes and become more important, which I think is an ideal first year. What he offers to our midfield is something different to the others, so there was a huge amount of inevitability to this.
“He buys into who we are as a club and what we’re trying to create culturally within the group.
“He’s a great player to have for what we’re trying to achieve off the pitch and he gives us so much on the pitch, so he’s the exact type of player I think Wolves should be signing.
“If you look at the type of players we like to sign as a football club, they generally haven’t reached their ceiling yet and have loads more to come.
“Tommy is a fraction of the player he will become, with the more he gets used to the league and the greater his understanding gets.
“I’m really excited for now but also his future at Wolves.”
Doyle had been with City since the age of eight but only made seven first-team appearances and had loan spells with Hamburg, Cardiff and Sheffield United.
He is ineligible to face his parent club in the Premier League on Saturday.
The midfielder’s grandfathers, Mike Doyle and Glyn Pardoe, are two of Man City’s biggest icons. His paternal grandfather, Mike Doyle, is City’s third-highest appearance-maker with 570 games for the club.