Everton snap up 16-year-old Shrewsbury 'keeper Mason Springthorpe

Everton have beaten off strong competition to sign Shrewsbury's highly rated youth-team goalkeeper Mason Springthorpe for ?125,000. The 16-year-old is hoping to follow in the footsteps of another former Shrewsbury graduate, Manchester City's Joe Hart.Springthorpe, already 6ft 2ins tall, said: 'There were a number of the top clubs chasing me - I feel blown away. It's a big step for me, but what an opportunity this is.' Hot prospect: David Moyes has moved to sign 6ft 2ins Mason Springthorpe Bolton 2 Everton 0: Cahill sends message to Capello and loan star Sturridge continues his hot streakLIVE: Keys and Gray return. follow our coverage of their talkSPORT comebackAll the latest Everton news, features and opinion  Explore more:People: Joe Hart

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