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Everton Youth Teams Thread

hirons11 said:
Think I'm going to go down and watch the U23's on Monday night. Been told it's at Loughborough University Stadium£3 cash on the door. Don't worry I'm not a super fan, I live in Nottingham so it's only half an hour or so away.
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Yeah,at least 12 games a year there for Derby,for the next 3 years,so always the chance we could be there again in the following seasons
 
Allegations of tapping up a former Cardiff youngster could lead to an Academy transfer ban.

Everton are facing a second tapping-up inquiry over allegations they broke Premier League rules in pursuit of a schoolboy who now plays for Manchester United.

Telegraph Sport can reveal the Merseysiders are under investigation following claims they breached regulations on the transfer of minors during an attempt to sign the youngster from Cardiff City.

Everton are already facing a independent inquiry into their recruitment of manager Marco Silva amid a bitter dispute with his former club, Watford.

The Telegraph can now reveal the Premier League received a letter last month - a copy of which was also sent to this newspaper - containing detailed accusations about the alleged tapping-up of a schoolboy by the Merseysiders in 2016.

If found guilty, Everton risk joining Liverpool and Manchester City in being handed an academy transfer ban.

As well as making tapping-up claims, the letter alleges a proposed move by the boy to Goodison Park collapsed because of “international clearance rules”, leaving him “in limbo” and “unable to play” academy football.

The Telegraph has corroborated this with a source familiar with the case who said Everton pulled out of the deal due to Fifa regulations governing cross-border transfers for players under the age of 16.

The source also revealed the boy, who the Telegraph has chosen not to name, was forced to return to the grassroots game until Cardiff received approximately £10,000 compensation for his development.

He was eventually scouted by United, who the source said learnt of his plight from his “upset” mother and who agreed to sign him last year and pay the compensation figure owed.

The boy’s mother did not respond to requests for comment when contacted by the Telegraph about the Premier League investigation.

Everton - who deny tapping up Silva - said in a statement: “Everton has been notified of an allegation relating to an approach by the club to an academy-aged player.

“On being made aware of this, we immediately launched an internal investigation and have been co-operating fully with all of the relevant authorities.”
Cardiff did not respond to requests for comment, while the Premier League and United declined to comment.

Everton were one of the victims of tapping-up by north-west rivals City, who were last year handed a two-year academy transfer ban - the second year of which was suspended for three years - over their recruitment of two schoolboys.

That followed the Liverpool tapping-up scandal, which was exclusively chronicled in the Telegraph and saw the latter club become the first to fall foul of tough new rules to crack down on poaching in the game.

That also led to a schoolboy being left unable to play academy football through no fault of his own until the Anfield club and Premier League agreed to pay Stoke City £49,000 in compensation.
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Connor said:
Allegations of tapping up a former Cardiff youngster could lead to an Academy transfer ban.
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That’s odd for us, we seem to have developed a reputation for being fair with the clubs we deal with, paying a decent amount e.g. Gibson, Bowler, Sambou DCL. Whereas others like Chelsea and RS are happy to let it go to a tribunal where they end up paying less e.g. Ampadu from Exeter to Chelsea, Solanke Chelsea to RS. Mind you , would be typical of us to get a fine/ban for a player we didn’t even get.
 
blueloon said:
That’s odd for us, we seem to have developed a reputation for being fair with the clubs we deal with, paying a decent amount e.g. Gibson, Bowler, Sambou DCL. Whereas others like Chelsea and RS are happy to let it go to a tribunal where they end up paying less e.g. Ampadu from Exeter to Chelsea, Solanke Chelsea to RS. Mind you , would be typical of us to get a fine/ban for a player we didn’t even get.
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That happened to us with Lascelles under Moyes
 

Everton u18s team to face stoke 11am ko-looking for 5 wins from 5 games


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Eggs said:
..I doubt Hornby would be involved in the England set-up in this age group if he was English.
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Agree mate. England tend to keep all but the really exceptional players within their own age groups these days. Sessegnon is the only one to make the step up to the latest U21s and, to be honest, he's looked totally out of his depth in the 2 games I've seen of him at this level.

You need to ask the question would Hornby even get into England's U19s group. It is a strong group and he'd be up against players like Hirst and Brewster so I'm not sure he would. I suppose it depends on how long he's been part of the group as England do tend to be quite loyal to their players and it can be quite difficult to break into it, as young Gordon found out last year.
 
blueloon said:
That’s odd for us, we seem to have developed a reputation for being fair with the clubs we deal with, paying a decent amount e.g. Gibson, Bowler, Sambou DCL. Whereas others like Chelsea and RS are happy to let it go to a tribunal where they end up paying less e.g. Ampadu from Exeter to Chelsea, Solanke Chelsea to RS. Mind you , would be typical of us to get a fine/ban for a player we didn’t even get.
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If you read the article though mate nobody involved seems to be saying anything, and not even the player has been named. Cardiff, United and even the lads parents have all had no comment to make. Just this anonymous letter that also managed to somehow finds it's way into the papers hands. We seem to be the only people speaking to the newspaper too.

It all relates to an episode 2 years ago that we apparently walked away from because we might have fallen foul of International rules, rather than we weren't prepared to pay compensation to Cardiff. Personally I think it's a nothing story that the newspaper have in their armoury, and are just using it to piggyback the Silva story as a page filler.
 
FINAL SCORE EVERTON U18S 1 STOKE U18S 0

A KIERAN PHILLIPS 88TH MIN PEN has give the blues a well deserved win



Todays early main results

Man utd 4 Blackburn 3 - [man utd were 2 up including a great little chip/lob for the 2nd,then 3-2 up-before it went 3-3]
Sunderland 1 man city 1

games to play today
Liverpool v Newcastle 1pm ----[liverpool lead after 4mins 1-0]
Derby v Middlesbrough 1pm ----- [derby lead after 5mins 1-0]

Table after early games

Everton 15 points from 5 games
Man utd 10 points from 5 games
Liverpool 9 points from 4 games
Man city 8 points from 5 games
Middlesbrough 6 points from 3 games
Newcastle 6 points from 4 games
Derby 5 points from 4 games

NEXT WEEK
Everton u18s away to man city u18s next saturday at 11am
 
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