Where are they now?

[jondesouza]

Here are updates on (mainly Academy) players that have left the club over the last few years.

Players that left Summer 2011

Zaine Francis-Angol

Was on the books of Motherwell but did not play.

Olumide Durojaiye

Trials at Cheltenham, Brentford and Oxford but does not seem to have signed anywhere.

Left during 2010/11 season

Anton Blackwood

Played one game for Aveley (Isthmian League Division 1 North / tier 8 in English football period) before moving to St Albans City (Southern League Premier / tier 7) where he also played once.

Calum Butcher

Played 18 times for FC Hjørring in the Danish 1st Division (tier 2).

 

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Players that left Summer 2010

Sam Cox

On the books of Barnet in League 2 but was released at the end of the season without playing.

Lee Butcher

Played 23 times for Leyton Orient in League 1.

Jamie Butler

Played 41 times in the league for the Met Police (Isthmian Premier / tier 7)

Coskun Ekim

Was released by Trabzonspor at the end of the 2010/11 season. No record since then.

Dorian Dervite

Was released by Villarreal B (Segunda A / tier 2) part way through the season having made 6 appearances.

Anthony Jack, Chace O'Neill

No record

Left during 2009/10 season

Tomâš Pekhart

Played 30 times, scoring 9 goals for Nurnberg in the Bundesliga.

Troy Archibald-Henville

Played 45 times, scoring twice for Exeter City in League 1. Was also voted Exeter player of the year.

 

[nailsy]

Isn't Pekhart in Denmarks squad for the Euros?

 

[dn013]

Isn't Pekhart in Denmarks squad for the Euros?

I thought he was Czech?

 

[jondesouza]

Players that left Summer 2009

David Hutton

Started the season with Jerez Industrial (Spanish Tercera) and then moved to Borehamwood (Conference South / tier 6)

Kyle Fraser-Allen

Has left football and is now in banking.

Cian Hughton

Was on Birmingham's books last season but was released without playing.

Danny Hutchins

Played for Dunstable Town (Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division / tier 9) and Arlesey Town (Southern League Premier Division / tier 7) during the last season.

Jacques Maghoma

4 goals in 36 league games for Burton Albion (League 2)

Saulo Asajile

Last seen playing for Winchester City (Wessex League Premier Division / tier 9)

Ajet Shehu

Played 3 times for KS Gramozi Erseke in the Albanian Superliga.

James Dalton

Is number 1 keeper for the England futsal team!

Yaser Kasim

Made his Brighton debut towards the end of the season.

Yuri Berchiche

Was playing for Real Union in the Spanish Segunda B (tier 3)

Kingsley Francis-Reynolds

Was playing for Aveley last season (Isthmian Premier / tier 7)

 

[nailsy]

I thought he was Czech?

Shows how desperate the Danes are then .

 

[jondesouza]

Left during 2008/09 season

Charlie Daniels

21 appearances and 2 goals for Bournemouth (League 1)

Alex Olsen

Was playing for Valencia B (Segunda B / tier 3) last season.

Leigh Mills

Played regularly for Winchester City (Wessex League Premier Division / tier 9)

Andy Barcham

Great season for S****horpe (League 1) scoring 9 in 41 league games.

Kieran McKenna

Retired through injury and is taking coaching badges.

 

[Blockbuster]

This shows how bad our academy is really. or that we only allow players to go who really don't make it.
shame really but it shows how important it is for players in these academy's to get an education.

 

[jondesouza]

Players that left Summer 2008

Chris Riley

Played for Chesham United (Southern League Premier / tier 7)

Jamie Davis

Played for both Bitton (Western League / tier 9) and Thurrock (Conference South / tier 6) during the season.

Joe Martin

35 league games, 1 goal for Gillingham (League 2)

Tommy Forecast

At Southampton but didn't play.

Chris Casey

Played for Dunstable Town (Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division / tier 9)

Matthew Wells, Radwan Hamed

No details

Left during 2007/08 season

Phil Ifil

23 appearances for Kettering Town (Conference)

Terry Dixon

Started the season at Bradford (League 2) but made no appearances. Was loaned to Halifax Town (Conference North / tier 6) where he played 4 times, scoring once. Then moved on a permanent deal to Dover Athletic (Conference South / tier 6) where he played 12 times, scoring once.

 

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Players that left Summer 2007

Rob Burch

On the books of Notts County (League 1) but did not play.

Charlie Lee

Scored 6 goals in 34 for Gillingham (League 2)

Reto Ziegler

Ever present for Fenerbahce, scoring once in 38 games, on loan from Juventus.

Mark Yeates

3 goals in 33 at Watford.

Greg Lake

Played alongside Emerson and Palmer at Radstock Town (Western League Premier / tier 9)

Richard Stroud

Was at Erith and Belvedere (Kent League Premier Division / tier 9) for at least some of last season.

Emil Hallfredsson

6 goals in 30 for Verona (Serie B).

Rodrigo Defendi

Played 13 times, scoring once, for Vitoria Guimaraes in the Portuguese Premeira Liga.

Left during 2006/07 season

Stuart Lewis

41 appearances, 1 goal for Wycombe (League 1)

 

[Jay The Yid]

See our scouting network has done us proud!?

Fucking joke if you ask me. For the size of the club and the catchment area we have. To have only ONE truly top player to come thought the youth set up in the last 15 years is a disgrace!

Hope our next batch does better but don't hold much hope! Lots of changes needed in our youth set up.

 

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Players that left Summer 2006

Dean Marney

37 appearances for Burnley

John Kyriacou

Played for Chesham United (Southern League Premier / tier 7)

Marcel McKie

No details

Left during 2005/06 season

Richard Heller

Played for Haverhill Rovers (Eastern Counties Premier Division / tier 9)

Claude Seanla

Seems to have been all over the place, including Crawley Down (Isthmian League Division 1 South / tier 8), Walton and Hersham (same league) and Ashford Town (Southern League Division 1 Central / tier 8)

 

[jondesouza]

See our scouting network has done us proud!?

Fucking joke if you ask me. For the size of the club and the catchment area we have. To have only ONE truly top player to come thought the youth set up in the last 15 years is a disgrace!

Hope our next batch does better but don't hold much hope! Lots of changes needed in our youth set up.

I haven't included other players that have done well (Mounir El-Hamdaoui, Stephen Kely, Lee Barnard, Adel Taarabt, Jamie O'Hara) as their whereabouts are pretty well known!

 

[jondesouza]

Last one...

Players that left Summer 2005

Spase Dilevski

12 appearances, 1 goal for Adelaide United during the last A League season.

David Limbersky

Back at Viktoria Plzen in the Czech Republic and in the Czech Euro 2012 squad.

Michael Malcolm

2 goals in 4 for Lewes (Isthmian Premier / tier 7) before a move to Bromley (Conference South / tier 6) where he scored 4 in 15.

Paul O'Donoghue

Now playing Gaelic Football.

Nicky Eyre

10 appearances for Concord Rangers (Isthmian Premier / tier 7)

Jamie Slabber

3 goals in 7 games for Chelmsford City (Conference South / tier 6)

Owen Price, Scott Thyer, Tommy Welch

No details.

Mark Wright

Former Spurs player is now the star of TOWIE/IACGMOOH! Also signed for St Neots Town(Southern League Division 1 / tier 8) during the season but don't know if he played.

 

[mpickard2087]

I cant be bothered to type out a huge analysis of our youth set-up, again, but for the two above lamenting our youth set-up...

Yes it hasnt been up to scratch for the last 10-15 years, we all know that, and this is reflected in Jon's posts above. What you have to realise though is that there was only an effort made to change this in 2004 when Arnesen came in. It takes years for this effort to be seen. The first batch of what would have been the 12-14 year olds abck in 2004 are just coming through now (Livermore, Caulker et al) and already it looks more promising.

We have to give it time (at least 10-15 years) to see what effect this change has had, hopefully for the better. The signs are already promising though.

 

[beats1]

Mpoku seems to be playing for Standard liege, wiki says he played six games but the standard site says he's played 24 games, leyton fans told me he was better than townsend whilst there before being mismanaged by Slade and then we released him I guess as a result of him not playing

 

[Spurrific]

Mpoku seems to be playing for Standard liege, wiki says he played six games but the standard site says he's played 24 games, leyton fans told me he was better than townsend whilst there before being mismanaged by Slade and then we released him I guess as a result of him not playing

Wasn't he homesick or something?

 

[eddiebailey]

Very interesting. Does not look like we missed out on anyone much (maybe El Hamadoui - consonant please Carol); which might be considered a good thing. Worth remembering that these are the ones we let go. The cream of the Academy crop produced over the last three or four years are still at the club: Button, Livermore, Townsend, Mason, Carroll, Caulker, Kane, Fredericks etc. And the current squad contains many lads whom we scouted young: Dawson, Huddlestone, Lennon, Bale, Rose, Sandro, Walker, Naughton.

Good to see though that a reasonable number of lads we let go are playing at a respectable level, and a few are doing better than I had realised. Limbersky for one, and sounds like Barcham and Archibald-Henville had storming seasons. A few might have done better but for injury, McKenna was a very tidy player, Dixon of course was prospect and I was very excited by Jamie Davis (good to learn that he is able to play at all).

 

[eddiebailey]

Wasn't he homesick or something?

Sounds likely. He wasn't released, we got about £500K for him if I recall correctly.

 

[OmarsComing]

This shows how bad our academy is really. or that we only allow players to go who really don't make it.
shame really but it shows how important it is for players in these academy's to get an education.

This is the story for every academy in the country.