Yeah very strange. He was a slim looking youngster but he still looked pretty strong to me all things considered, not someone you feel would need a specific strengthing plan or anything. I wonder if he is struggling to commit to the idea of football and they are training him whilst he considers it, like gardening leave almost but with conditioning or something.
Been playing loads of CM3 recently and it's weird seeing very highly rated youngsters in the game that you don't remember, typing their names in and often the first link being their current LinkedIn profile, where they are marketing manager for a tractor firm, or working in sales for windows or something, having ended up playing almost virtually zero professional football in the end in real life.