Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock is hopeful teenage sensation John Bostock will finally sign a contract with the club in the next few weeks.

Bostock was expected to put pen to paper when he turned 16 on January 15, but talks stalled after the youngster declared his interest in getting an agent before agreeing any deal.

He has now signed for Colin Gordon's Key Sports Management agency though, the same agency that represented Theo Walcott and organised his £12million move from Southampton to Arsenal two years ago.

That news has prompted some fans to worry that Bostock might be heading in the same direction, but Warnock was hopeful they could push through a deal.

He said: "We are hoping to get his mind made up now. He has his agent and hopefully that will speed things along a little bit.

"There is nothing we can do now. We cannot do any more than what we have been doing."

Bostock became the Eagles youngest ever player when he came on as a substitute against Watford in October aged just 15 years and 287 days and is highly thought of at Selhurst Park.

He recently returned from the Algarve after helping the England U-17s win a four-team tournament against France, Denmark and Portugal, playing a part in every game.

Warnock has also revealed that he hopes to get contract talks with players back under way in the next few weeks.

The manager announced he was putting all talks on ice after last Tuesday's dismal home defeat to Ipswich, leaving Mark Hudson, Clinton Morrison and Julian Speroni all sweating about their futures as their contracts run out in the summer.

He said: "There is nothing new on the contracts at the moment. I will have a chat with them in the next couple of weeks but we've just had a lot of games recently so we haven't really had time."

While negotiations had started with both Hudson and Speroni, it is thought they had not with the club's top scorer Morrison, although Warnock has previously spoken publicly about his admiration for him.