Manchester City defender Taylor Harwood-Bellis has explained his loan move to Blackburn Rovers.

It seems Blackburn's development of another City academy product in Tosin Adarabioyo was a key factor behind the transfer.

“I knew they'd got a few young players on loan and I knew that they're at the right end of the Championship, and what they did with Tosin last year," Harwood-Bellis told the Lancashire Telegraph.

“City said that it was a great club and that they'd got that experience of what they'd done with Tosin so they said it would be good for me to go and try and replicate that.

“He progressed and is now playing in the Premier League so hopefully I can follow in his footsteps.

“The club were really good to him, he got his opportunity and did really well."