Since the Premier League season is almost over, Phil Foden has been seen spending the rest of his summer vacation at a fishing lake in Oxfordshire.

The 24-year-old had the best season of his career so far and was an important part of Gareth Southgate’s England team that made it to the final of Euro 2024 in Germany.

While Foden’s Manchester City teammates continued to get ready for the new season with a pre-season tour of the United States, he took some time off closer to home.

People on social media showed pictures of the attacking player and his dad fishing on a lake in the small town of Witney. The fish they caught were catfish, carp, tench, pike, and perch.

At the £14-a-day Linear Fisheries site, the two posed with some of their catch. The younger Foden is getting ready to go back to training on Monday. 

After making it into City’s first team as a youngster, Foden said that most of the other players don’t like fishing as much as he does.

In 2020, he said, “I think about 95% of the football boys don’t enjoy it.”

People say “what a weird sport to enjoy” when they find out that the odd one likes fishing. They don’t get why you like it.

“It’s clear that they should try it.” There’s nothing better than a sport to take a break and rest your legs.

Foden is so into his hobby that he missed City’s Prime League title celebrations in 2018 to go on a trip with his dad that they had planned ahead of time.

Foden’s love of fishing has clearly not changed, even with all the fame and money that his already successful job has brought him.

He was seen fishing with his younger brother Logan off the side of a boat while on vacation with his family in Marbella earlier this summer.

Soon, though, it will be time to get back to work because Pep Guardiola is determined to keep his team’s unmatched run of success in the domestic top flight going.

Guardiola’s former student Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea will be the first team to play in the new season at Stamford Bridge.