Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock has laughed off Fulham's chances of signing teenage sensation John Bostock.

Chelsea, Portsmouth and even Barcelona are thought to be monitoring his progress.

But it was the link to Fulham that Warnock chose to comment on, insisting that rumours linking the schoolboy with a move to Lawrie Sanchez's side are outrageously wide of the mark.

He told the Croydon Guardian: "No disrespect to Fulham but I think we've got more chance of signing David Beckham.

"There's all this speculation but I've not heard from anybody about Bostock."