Killie In Maradona Bid!

I dare say you all read in the newspapers today about the son of football legend Diego Maradona signing a loan deal with Clyde. Well we can exclusively reveal that this wont be happening, if he does come to Scotland it will either be to Kilmarnock or Dunfermline!

Diego Junior, who is only 16, is currently with Italian outfit Napoli, where his father became a legend (winning Serie A with them) in the late 80s and early 90s. Now struggling in Serie B, Napoli are hoping to farm out the 16-year- old on loan - and Killie are in the frame to sign the Italian Under 17 player.

Napoli feel that the boy is too young yet for the first team, but don't want him to go to another Italian team, and they see Scotland as somewhere he could go to hone his skills. The full thing is happening because IMG want to make a television documentary about him and Clyde were indeed contacted, but Kilmarnock have contacts within the organisation that is handling the transaction, and look favourite to land the lad. His mother apparently favours us!

Don't go thinking that we might witness the mighty Maradona at Rugby Park though, because he has never even met his son. He was born in 1986 following a one-night stand with his Neapolitan mother - and Diego Senior didn't even recognise him as his son until a DNA test seven years later.

Diego Junior was recently called into the Italian Under-17 side's training camp and, despite being right- footed, is said to show a lot of his father's skill. But Napoli's coaches believe he is more like the Portuguese star Rui Costa in his style. Napoli youth coach Antonio Porta said: "He has a wonderful right foot and takes penalties and free-kicks like his dad. But he must improve his left foot."

Our source at Rugby Park said: "We've had him checked out and by all accounts he seems to be a good player. As well as adding to the team, the publicity won't do us any harm either."