Personal information | |||
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Full name | Morgan Marc Boyes [1] [2] | ||
Date of birth | 22 April 2001 | ||
Place of birth | St Asaph, Wales | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Greenock Morton | ||
Youth career | |||
Liverpool | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019–2022 | Liverpool | 0 | (0) |
2020–2021 | → Fleetwood Town (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2022–2024 | Livingston | 32 | (1) |
2023–2024 | → Inverness CT (loan) | 25 | (3) |
2024- | Greenock Morton | 0 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2018–2019 | Wales U19 | 7 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Wales U21 | 11 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:50, 16 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 February 2024 |
Morgan Marc Boyes (born 22 April 2001) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Greenock Morton. Mainly a centre-back, he can also play as a left-back.
Boyes was born in the Welsh city of St Asaph and moved to Chester in England at the age of five. [3] [4]
Boyes made his professional debut for Liverpool on 17 December 2019, starting in the away match against Aston Villa in the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup, which finished as a 5–0 loss. He scored an own goal in the match, after blocking a ball from Ahmed Elmohamady, to find it looped over the goalkeeper's head into the corner of the net. [5] [6] [7] Boyes made another appearance for Liverpool in the 2019–20 season, as he appeared in stoppage time against Shrewsbury Town in the fourth round replay of the FA Cup. [3]
On 12 August 2020, Boyes joined League One side Fleetwood Town on a season-long loan. [8] On 23 September, he made his debut for the Cod Army. Starting at left centre-back in a EFL Cup Third round tie against Everton. He played the full match in a 2–5 defeat. [9] He made kept his place in the squad for the next game. A 0–1 defeat against AFC Wimbledon in the League One. [10] However, he would only make two more appearances before being recalled by Liverpool on 2 January 2021. [11] [12]
On 4 January 2022, Boyes joined Scottish Premiership side Livingston on an 18-month contract, with an option of a further year. [13]
On September 1 2023, Boyes joined Scottish Championship club Inverness on a loan deal till the end of the 2023/24 season.
Following his departure from Livi, Boyes signed for Greenock Morton. [14]
Boyes has Wales caps at both under-19 and under-21 levels. In March 2021, he was called up to the Wales national under-21 football team, [15] [16] playing all 90 minutes in Wales's 2–1 defeat by Ireland at Colliers Park, Wrexham on 26 March 2021. [17] Manager Paul Bodin then selected a largely unchanged squad, including Boyes, for the side's Euro 2023 qualifying game against Moldova on 4 June 2021. [18]
Boyes is a centre-back but has also been deployed as a left back so far during his career. [19] He has described himself as a "calm defender who likes to play and build up from the back.". [20] Joey Barton, who managed Boyes during his loan spell at Fleetwood, described him as "a young player with plenty of potential". [21]
Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Liverpool U21 | 2019–20 | — | — | — | — | 2 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
Liverpool | 2019–20 | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
Fleetwood Town (loan) | 2020–21 | League One | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
Livingston | 2021–22 | Scottish Premiership | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
2022–23 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | |||
Total | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | ||
Total | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 1 |
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