I quit Man City for the right reasons but 12 months later I was without a club - now I'm rebuilding my career
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSitting in a near empty changing room at Curzon Ashton seems an appropriate enough place for a career check. "I am always striving to play better, I am never going to say I am playing perfect football because there is always room for improvement." Isaac Buckley-Ricketts is level-headed and determined.
This is a player who played in two FA Youth Cup finals with Manchester City, scoring in one, and won the European Under-19 Championships with England.
He came through at the Etihad alongside household names like Jadon Sancho. Mason Mount and Reece James were international contemporaries.
Buckley-Ricketts chose first team football over academy fixtures and while loan moves to FC Twente and Oxford United, and a permanent switch to Peterborough United, didn't work out, the now 26-year-old is sanguine about his journey and purposeful about what comes next.
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