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Did some research and found out he plays for Leipzig now.. Just transferred in January.Could be Haidara
Did some research and found out he plays for Leipzig now.. Just transferred in January.Could be Haidara
What concerns me as much as our invisible transfer business is the poor quality of our academy. For a club that has invested so heavily in the infrastructure of the training ground we really aren’t seeing anywhere near enough quality from our academy. Winks is 23, where are the 17-19 year olds that are getting us excited ? I’m a KWP dan but not sure Poch is. The others we thought might make it like CCV and Onomah don’t look like Premier league players let alone good enough for CL. So we are left only with Skipp which really isn’t enough to justify the bet we’ve made. I don’t think we do enough to supplement our own youth by buying young players from the lower leagues or from abroad. If we aren’t going to spend mega bucks on senior players then we absolutely must do way way better in scouting and developing youth.
Really like this kid.Exequiel Palacios broke a bone in his leg and is out for 2 months. He's a big time CM prospect for River Plate. Would require some Poch convincing as I think Real Madrid are after him.
Berge is out injured and has been for a couple of weeks, so won't be him we were watching in Belgium.View attachment 45634
I had seen elsewhere a while back we had scouted Brugge's striker Wesley. The last line is intriguing as well as we've had plenty of links to Sander Berge out of Belgium.
I’m never worried by links in the media. They have an incredibly poor hit rate.Look at the list of players on a Bosman and that will tell you the players on our shopping list. The rumours of Sturridge fits this, Rabiot fits this and I expect links to Hector Herrera shortly. Expect yet another summer where transfer activity is determined by price not quality. When this happens maybe you will finally recognise the issues with our owners.
He stat pads in a few games vs cap to average teams. In 14 of the 22 games he has played this season, he has neither scored nor assisted and 5 of his 8 assists came in 2 games, vs Chievo and vs Atalanta (who were on a dip of form). If you look back season on season, it is the same trend.Well his stats are pretty good (for the Italian league anyway) and he has a 35m release clause apparently, maybe he is our budget Zaha?
I’ve only seen him a couple of times, but I was impressed with his ability to ride out a tackle, he didn’t seem afraid to be physical on the ball. Hopefully there’s a Milan supporter here somewhere who can give some more insight.
Not really relevant as our top 6 competitors go out and buy senior players. But seeing as you ask City have Foden and sold Brahim for £20m, Chelsea have Hudson-Odoi and a bunch of good players like Mason Mount on loan (the fact they don’t play them is the dysfunctionality of that club not the quality of the players), the goons have Reiss-Nelson out in the Bundesliga and a few actually making their first team, United have a young forward coming through who is according to their fans better than Rashford (think his name is Greenwood), the Spammers have Rice. Liverpool have TAA and Gomez. I’m not an expert on other clubs youth but ours does seem pretty poor.How many 17-19 year olds are making impressions in the teams at the top around us?
Looks like a future star from what I've seen.Really like this kid.
I’m not suggesting we should have 17-19 year olds in the team but that we should have players of that age that we think might make the team in the future so telling me Foden or Hudson Odoi have very little playing time misses the point. Other than Skipp can you tell me one player in that age bracket you think might make our first team squad ? Sterling has just gone on loan to Sunderland in League 1 and can’t even make their bench.Foden has played a total of 91 minutes in League games this season, Diaz isn't there any more, TAA is 20 years old, Gomez is 21 and Hudson Odoi has 74 League minutes.
Sanchez is 22, Foyth 21, Dele 22 etc.
If they're good enough, they play...what 17-19 year old is going to break into our team at full strength?
Honestly feel in football today, some fans are becoming obsessed with younger and younger players due to the level of exposure etc.
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I had seen elsewhere a while back we had scouted Brugge's striker Wesley. The last line is intriguing as well as we've had plenty of links to Sander Berge out of Belgium.
I’m not suggesting we should have 17-19 year olds in the team but that we should have players of that age that we think might make the team in the future so telling me Foden or Hudson Odoi have very little playing time misses the point. Other than Skipp can you tell me one player in that age bracket you think might make our first team squad ? Sterling has just gone on loan to Sunderland in League 1 and can’t even make their bench.
Our U18 side is top of the Southern Section of the league and undefeated this season I think. All the observers in the youth thread reckon it’s our best batch of kids since the Kane, Mason side. There’s been a couple of age groups lacking talent above them, and the U23 side is pretty terrible this year.I’m not suggesting we should have 17-19 year olds in the team but that we should have players of that age that we think might make the team in the future so telling me Foden or Hudson Odoi have very little playing time misses the point. Other than Skipp can you tell me one player in that age bracket you think might make our first team squad ? Sterling has just gone on loan to Sunderland in League 1 and can’t even make their bench.
All the more reason to stock up on young talent (preferably homegrown) emerging in the lower leagues or abroad. But we're not doing that...... There’s been a couple of age groups lacking talent above them, and the U23 side is pretty terrible this year.
Liverpool bough Gomez from Charlton, he's also 21 so doesn't fit the 17-19 bracket.Not really relevant as our top 6 competitors go out and buy senior players. But seeing as you ask City have Foden and sold Brahim for £20m, Chelsea have Hudson-Odoi and a bunch of good players like Mason Mount on loan (the fact they don’t play them is the dysfunctionality of that club not the quality of the players), the goons have Reiss-Nelson out in the Bundesliga and a few actually making their first team, United have a young forward coming through who is according to their fans better than Rashford (think his name is Greenwood), the Spammers have Rice. Liverpool have TAA and Gomez. I’m not an expert on other clubs youth but ours does seem pretty poor.