Jack Grimmer

Jack Richard Grimmer (born 25 January 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for EFL League One club Wycombe Wanderers.

A Scotland under-21 international, he began his career at Aberdeen, becoming the club's youngest ever player at the age of 16. He was sold to Fulham in January 2012 and has since been loaned out to Port Vale and Shrewsbury Town (in three separate spells). He signed with Coventry City in July 2017, and went on to be named in the EFL League Two PFA Team of the Year for the 2017–18 season as Coventry won promotion via the play-offs. He signed with Wycombe Wanderers in July 2019 and 12 months later helped the club to win promotion out of League One via the play-offs.

Club Career

Aberdeen

Grimmer made his debut for Aberdeen under Mark McGhee on 7 April 2010, becoming the youngest ever Aberdeen player when he came on as a substitute for Steven MacLean in a 3–1 defeat to Rangers at Ibrox at the age of 16 years, 2 months and 13 days. Four days later he made his Pittodrie debut in a 3–1 defeat to St Johnstone.

His next taste of first team football came in the last two SPL games of the 2010–11 season, which included his first start in professional football in a 1–0 home defeat to St Mirren on 10 May.

In January 2012, Aberdeen manager Craig Brown confirmed that English Premier League club Fulham had expressed interest in signing Grimmer. Brown also stated his belief that Grimmer would best develop his career by staying with the "Dons". Despite this, Grimmer agreed to join Fulham on 18 January, with Aberdeen receiving a £200,000 fee plus incentives. Following his move to Fulham, Aberdeen chief executive Duncan Fraser claimed Grimmer's decision to quit Pittodrie for Fulham showed how young Scottish talent was being lured south of the border by wealthy English clubs and was therefore a bad indication for the future of Scottish football.

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