YORK City youth-team keeper Ryan Whitley has signed a two-year contract at Bootham Crescent.

The 17-year-old former Archbishop Holgate pupil has been on trial at Manchester City in the past and also attended England youth training camps.

Whitley has featured for the reserve team last season after recovering from a dislocated knee, but is yet to make his senior debut.

The Minstermen have appointed a new medical team, meanwhile, after first-team physio Mat Johnson’s decision to leave the club and set up his own business during the first month of the season.

Johnson took over from Jeff Miller, who parted company with City last season after almost 30 years of service.

Former Doncaster and Darlington physio Will Short, 34, has been named the club’s head of sports medicine, having also worked with the England volleyball and Welsh national hockey teams in the past.

As part of the changes, Ian Gallagher, who has spent the last 25 years at Hartlepool as an apprentice, player and physio, will now be lead physiotherapist and sports therapist Ryan Garrett will work predominantly with the reserve, youth and academy players.

Gallagher, 39, has recently started his own physiotherapy business in the north-east and will start work at Bootham Crescent on September 4, meaning Short will be on first-team duty against Southport, FC United of Manchester and Chorley prior to the former's arrival.