Peterborough United receive a near £2 million bid for midfielder

Posh co-owner Darragh MacAnthony made the revelatiion during the latest edition of his popular ‘Hard Truth’ podcast. It’s understood the bid was rejected.

MacAnthony claimed Posh paid ‘close to a million’ to bring Taylor from National League side Barnet last January. The reported fee was £500k.

MacAnthony was speaking in general terms about signing players from non-league football when he said: “I’m not going to give away our secrets, but there is plenty of science and data involved when we look at non-league players.

“We don’t just sign them if we believe they can play at League One level, we want them to go on and play even higher.

“The sweet spot as far as age is concerned is between 18-23 and Jack was 21.

“We knew he had had a great pedigree as he started at Chelsea so technically he was going to be good and he had played in the Football League with Barnet and Barnet are very good with young players.

“The question was how quickly he could make the step up to League One as the tempo of the training and the matches is much faster.

“Buut we spent close to a million on him and he helped transform last season.

“He was brilliant, one of our best players and already we’ve had a bid of just under £2 million for him this summer.

“He did tear a hamstring in the last game we played which is probably down to an intensity he wasn’t used to, but he’s fit again now and looking good.

“We have a good record signing players from non-league. If they don’t make it with us they tend to have good Football League careers elsewhere.”