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BIRD AND SIBLEY COMMIT TO RAMS

By Ben Pound
CHAMPIONSHIP

AMBITION: Max Bird

YOUNG midfielders Max Bird and Louie Sibley have signed four-year contract extensions with Derby and set their sights on the Premier League.
Sibley, 19, broke into the Rams’ first team last season, making 11 Championship appearances and six more in cup competitions. He scored five goals, including a hat-trick against Millwall.
Bird, for whom the contract came a day before his 20th birthday, made four league outings in 2018-19 and began to hold down a regular place last season, recently deputising as captain in the absence of Wayne Rooney...

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