He's a model pro!

The talented Astley Bridge youngster was spotted playing for Bolton's own Eagley Rangers by an Old Trafford scout when he was just four and he started training with United once a week.

Now, Ashley has also been picked to model the club's new kit alongside David Beckham and Rio Ferdinand after a model agency in Walkden signed him up.

Ashley also trains at Bolton Wanderers and Bolton Arena. Last season he was top scorer at Eagley Rangers, who play in the Bolton Mini-League, and won the Junior Player of the Year award.

Ashley's dad, Michael Fletcher, said: "Ashley has never got a ball off the end of his foot. He is totally mad about football -- he's been playing since he could walk.

"A friend of ours said we should take him to a model agency and we thought 'Why not?'. It was a total coincidence that he was picked to model the United kit."

Mr Fletcher added: "Since being photographed with the players, he has spoken of little else. They even let him keep the kit. Obviously, if he one day became a professional player it would be a dream come true."

Kidz National model agency is so impressed with Ashley that it has also snapped up his younger brother, Elliot, aged four, who is a keen footballer.

Ashley has also modelled school uniforms for catalogues through the agency, which has also supplied extras for TV shows such as Cutting It and Eastenders spin-off Ricky and Bianca.

Kidz National co-director Kathy Haslam said: "Ashley is a good looking boy and Manchester United picked him to model the kit randomly from our website. It is a secure site and they wouldn't have known he trains with them.

"This sort of job is a dream for children, but the club did specify they should be Manchester United fans -- I think that was because they let them keep the kit."

However, Mr Fletcher said his son was yet to decide which club he would follow for life.

"One week it's United, the next it's Bolton and the next it's Liverpool. But this week it is definitely United," he said.