useless Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Shakpoke's agency have put on instagram that his new club is to be announced 'shortly', he's put it on his instagram as well. Presuming that it's us he's signing for and it's all done in time he could be facing Norwich his former club this weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pez1974 Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 On 14/09/2020 at 13:57, mikeyp102 said: According the official Twitter, u23 are losing To Albion 1-0 at half time of first match Lost 3-1 - 2 late penalties I think. I wouldn't worry about it (not saying you were). We're playing a bunch of 16, 17 and 18 years olds, whereas other teams have 22 and 23 year olds playing. And it's much overhauled squad. We've had years of doing well in the u23s by keeping players there too long, and only really bought Cahill and Jack through of high quality (and Barry, although he joined us less than a year before he was in the first team squad). The new approach will see the team likely do worse, but should produce more quality for the first team. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilS Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 On 10/09/2020 at 19:25, MessiWillSignForVilla said: Not sure if this should go here or in the speculation thread, but looks like we're trying to sign Carney Chukwuemeka's brother. I see that Caleb is making his debut for The Cobblers tonight in the league cup. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieranavfc Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Average age v West Brom was pretty similar actually - 19.6 v 19.3. Looked like an even game that was settled at the death. Match Sheet https://www.transfermarkt.com/west-bromwich-albion-u23_aston-villa-u23/index/spielbericht/3445835 Match Stats https://www.transfermarkt.com/west-bromwich-albion-u23_aston-villa-u23/statistik/spielbericht/3445835 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Oliwier Zych the young Polish goalkeeper that we were linked with a couple of months back has officially joined our academy, or at least he's been added to the academy page on the website. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 We know that they've joined already as they played at the weekend, but the club has now officially announced McBride, O'Reilly and Swinkels... Aston Villa are delighted to welcome three new players to the club’s Academy. Aaron O’Reilly (defender), Sil Swinkels (defender, pictured above) and Caolan McBride (midfielder) have all linked up with the Under-18 squad. All three players have represented their respective countries on the international stage, and Academy Manager Mark Harrison was pleased to bring them to B6. He said: “We are delighted to welcome Aaron, Sil and Caolan to the club. “They have all had international experience and we look forward to watching their development at Aston Villa.” O’Reilly, who moves over from St Patrick’s Athletic, has won four caps for the Republic of Ireland. Swinkels joins from Vitesse Arnheim in his native Netherlands, the country he has represented twice at Under-15 level. And McBride, who has signed from Glentoran, has won two caps for Northern Ireland, featuring in their UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification campaign. Congratulations to our new Villans! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepal_villan Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 On 15/09/2020 at 02:25, useless said: Shakpoke's agency have put on instagram that his new club is to be announced 'shortly', he's put it on his instagram as well. Presuming that it's us he's signing for and it's all done in time he could be facing Norwich his former club this weekend. He's not listed on the official website yet. Maybe still finalizing the paperwork? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Not sure what's going on with Shakpoke, last I heard we were waiting for clearance from the FA, Swinkels, McBride and O'Reilly all played last weekend but they've only been officially announced today, so you might find the first we hear of Shakpoke officially joining is when he's named in one of the line-ups, same with Bogarde if that's actually happening. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 (edited) Not one hundred percent certain, but pretty sure that this is Lamare Bogarde training with us on the right of this picture from the official site. Edited September 18, 2020 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejoker Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Much better performance and result against Norwich tonight. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post useless Posted September 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 19, 2020 U18s beat Norwich 1-0, Kahrel Reddin with the goal from a penalty, we also had both Lindley and Appiah sent off. They beat Albion 5-1 last week so good result. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 (edited) Lamare Bogarde came off the bench for our u18s v Norwich Edited September 19, 2020 by sir_gary_cahill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 (edited) That's strange, Bogarde wasn't listed as being involved earlier on the official site, they since added him and changed Afoku to 'trialist'. Seems the goalscorer has also been changed to Bradley Young. Edited September 19, 2020 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siminjo Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 (edited) if he is listed as a trialist, does it mean he is still with WBA, and if we don`t try to take him off WBA`s hadns then he returns to them? Edited September 20, 2020 by siminjo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 (edited) Can't be certain that 'trialist' is even Afoka, official site and other sites changed some of the starting line-up and most of the bench after the game yesterday and also the goal scorer. Although good chance that it is him. I think he's around Barry's age as they were called up to the England U15 squad together so chances are that if he was still with Albion he would have signed some sort of a contract with them by now, meaning he probably wouldn't be having trials at other clubs, so my guess would be that he's probably left them for whatever reason. We've got three or four of Albion's academy set-up now working for us so they will know about him and must have thought it was worth giving him a chance, that he's playing for us in the season proper rather than just friendlies makes me think that they must have confidence in his capabilities, so there must be a good chance that he will be offered some sort of deal. Edited September 20, 2020 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 39 minutes ago, siminjo said: if he is listed as a trialist, does it mean he is still with WBA, and if we don`t try to take him off WBA`s hadns then he returns to them? If he’s on trial with us, then the player is either contracted with another club or without a club. In Afoku’s case, he is probably contracted to WBA and is on trial with us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayk Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 On 11/09/2020 at 09:18, useless said: Would be a great signing......understand he plays DM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 is Afoku any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 (edited) Bogarde came off the bench yesterday, so presumably has already signed, apparently he's a DM that can also play as a centre-back. Afoka I don't know anything about other than that he's came through the Albion academy and got called up to the England U15 squad at the same time as Rico Richards and Louie Barry both also of Albion at the time. Edited September 20, 2020 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, messi11 said: is Afoku any good? Depends how aggravated you feel I guess. Billy Connolly was always a big fan. Edited September 20, 2020 by KenjiOgiwara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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