Everton boss Roberto Martinez is delighted with their deal for Bury defender Matty Foulds.

Foulds will move to Everton in January.

“Matty is a really exciting prospect because he is a left-footed centre-half with a real margin of development," Martinez told the Liverpool Echo.

“His technical ability will allow him to be a footballing centre-half and he's had a really interesting 12 months in the first-team at Bury, without playing many games in the competitive league.

“But we feel he has all the attributes to become a quite interesting player to fit in that elite group that we have in the under-21s.

He is only 17 and is younger than any of the players we have brought into that system but we feel that with a good two-year programme he could become someone really interesting."