useless Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 U16 player Dylan Mitchell has signed a scholarship with us, another one signed from Albion, his younger brother is also in our academy. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 24 minutes ago, useless said: U16 player Dylan Mitchell has signed a scholarship with us, another one signed from Albion, his younger brother is also in our academy. What is his younger brother’s name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 I forget the name of the younger brother sorry, I think he's quite a bit younger so might be a while before we see him, I know they both signed for us at the same time though. Dylan is U16s captain and has already been on the bench for the U18s, he's a central midfielder. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 I think the loans we have planned for some of our fringe academy graduates have to be to the Championship. League 1 is to much of a step down, for any of our aspiring youth, if they/us have ambitions for Premier League football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, TRO said: I think the loans we have planned for some of our fringe academy graduates have to be to the Championship. League 1 is to much of a step down, for any of our aspiring youth, if they/us have ambitions for Premier League football. Jack Grealish went on loan to a then league 1 Notts County Edited January 6, 2022 by sir_gary_cahill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 42 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said: Jack Grealish went on loan to a then league 1 Notts County yes he did, and there are exceptions to every rule. In the next season we went down, so most of Jacks time was in the championship, which was more pro rata, to what we have now....one league step up, when they come back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 3 minutes ago, TRO said: yes he did, and there are exceptions to every rule. In the next season we went down, so most of Jacks time was in the championship, which was more pro rata, to what we have now....one league step up, when they come back. I agree, players have to relish it, Grealish did for us, it was funny watching Grealish in The Championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Tables posted on the secret scout instagram for the U15 Floodlit Cup, we're top of our group. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 On 14/11/2021 at 21:40, useless said: I would't be surprised to see us raid Albion for some more youngsters, Lino Sousa, Jamal Jimoh, Leo Cardoso, and Reyes Cleary all highly rated. There have been rumours that Sousa might have already agreed to join us, turns seventeen in January so might hear something then as he can then sign a professional contract. The bolded part won't be happening, he's signed for Arsenal. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 is Shakpoke still suspended? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 (edited) He played at the weekend, I don't know who we played or what the score was though. Must have been a behind closed doors friendly, we had been due to play Chelsea but that was postponed presumably because they had a FA Youth Cup game, that Chelsea has now been rescheduled for Tuesday next week. We did play small heath since the Leicester game in which he got sent off, so would seem harsh if his suspension goes beyond that. Edited January 19, 2022 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 On 06/01/2022 at 20:30, useless said: Tables posted on the secret scout instagram for the U15 Floodlit Cup, we're top of our group. Is that cole ramsey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 It's Aaron Ramsey from back when we won the Floodlit Cup in 2018... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepal_villan Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 What's the latest with Travis Patterson? Impressed the few times I saw him with the U23s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 As far as I know Patterson hasn't played since late November, unless he played in the above mentioned behind closed doors friendly. Whether he's injured or not I don't know, he won't have a missed a lot of games though, as the academy teams have more of a break over Christmas, U23s have only just got going again, and U18s still haven't played any official matches since before Christmas. I think we also have to manage his and one or two of the others' game time differently because they stil go to school, so might not be able to attend training as regularly as some of the older players. Now that Chrisene is back, will be interesting to see if we're still going to use him as a left-back, I watched him for the U18s last season in midfield and he was probably our standout player, and bearing in mind at that point he was a U16 new to the U18s. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 On 19/01/2022 at 06:03, useless said: It's Aaron Ramsey from back when we won the Floodlit Cup in 2018... Yes Brad Young far left, Kesler Hayden Far Right, Ramsey in the middle, Chukwuemeka at the back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 (edited) A FIFA limit on 6 loan players out (+6 in) is coming in to effect in 2024. Hopefully this is enough to run our new talent farming operation. Edit - ignore. Apparently homegrown U21s are exempt. Edited January 20, 2022 by Sam-AVFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 1 hour ago, messi11 said: Yes Brad Young far left, Kesler Hayden Far Right, Ramsey in the middle, Chukwuemeka at the back Yes but there was a photo on the Instagram post of a player holding the trophy, and I assumed cole because that's around his age group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 12 minutes ago, MotoMkali said: Yes but there was a photo on the Instagram post of a player holding the trophy, and I assumed cole because that's around his age group. Possibly Cole Ramsey is only 14/15 so yeah he would feature in this years cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Sam-AVFC said: A FIFA limit on 6 loan players out (+6 in) is coming in to effect in 2024. Hopefully this is enough to run our new talent farming operation. Edit - ignore. Apparently homegrown U21s are exempt. The main question is how the loan between clubs will apply to youth players. Because I assume one of the main benefits of the Las Vegas Villans is being able to send our best youth players there for game time in a professional league that speaks English. If we can omyl send 3 at a time it may reduce the impact of that for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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