The 16 year old has taken up a two-year apprentice contract with the Blues, who were relegated from the English Premier League last month.

The apprenticeship will involve Skapetis training and playing with the Blues youth team while also going to school and working around the club in less glamorous roles such as sweeping the change rooms, washing the club uniforms and setting up uniforms for the senior team players.

But the Rowville Sports Academy student has no issue with some housework considering he will get the chance to work towards his dream of playing in the EPL.

"I have worked towards this for a long time and looked forward to the chance to move there," he said.

"All this happened through being at the school.

"My coach Stuart Munro set it all up. Without the school I would not have got there."

The teenage striker earned his deal after undergoing a four-week trial with the Blues in April.

He trained with the youth team, toured the club and got to see some EPL games.

He leaves for his new life in Birmingham - which he said reminded him of Melbourne - in early July.

"I will miss my family but it will be the same for other boys in the team who move to Birmingham.

"We will all be going through the same things."

"I hope to be pushing for the first team or the reserve side within 12 months."

While Blues fans were shattered to watch their side fall out of the lucrative EPL, Skapetis said relegation wouldn't effect who the youth team played against.

"The youth side still plays against the other big clubs," he said.