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Ring master
Player Valuation: £90m
Thanks for that...
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
And must be injured again. Seems to be permanently injured
I have high hopes that Beni will become another Peter Reid , and emerge as a decent player once he has a sustained injury free period, and would settle for him being half as good as Reid. Plus I must share some of the blame .... hasn’t played since I started sponsoring his thread
Ring master
Player Valuation: £90m
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Was just about to post this...
Virginia
John -- Astley -- Feeney -- Gibson
Interesting that we recently (mostly) had more midfield players coming through and now this wave of defenders...John -- Astley -- Feeney -- Gibson
Our commentators made a comment that they’d hoped Adeniran would be further along by now, which is based on the potential he had when at Fulham. It’s a tough one, high expectations but he’s only 20 and few English 20 year olds play at PL/Championship level. It’s an interesting comparison you make with Davies. Adeniran was excellent last night, driving forward from midfield, but he’s been very much a Defensive Mid this season, better than Markelo , but I can’t recollect him scoring a goal or even threatening to score/ have a shot at goal. He’s certainly got a powerful build .
...certainly one to watch given his early promotion to U23s and involvement with 1st team squad.
....scored a few unbelievable goals for Fulham but you’re right, he doesn’t get into goalscoring areas despite having great physicality and running power.
That’s three of late given two year contracts, John, Astley, Carroll, if they’re less certain they tend to give one year contracts, while Rooney got the maximum 3 years contract at 17.
I suspect it’s because before he came to us he’d already made his pro debut for Fulham in the cup.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Unsworth seems to be developing another strong team. I have to say I am always a bit surprised when I see some of the criticism of him as an under 23 coach. We have lots of players who’ve passed through the reserves into the first team. Fair enough many of them may not have developed as we had have hoped but once they are training with the first team that’s very little to do with Unsworth.
The budget for his side is reasonable but by no means the biggest and what you would also say is that in terms of under 18’s while we are generally in the top 10 we are not at the absolute pinnacle of the league. He seems to take players from the 18’s and generally improve them. Broadhead is probably the latest one who has really come on leaps and bounds under him.
If I’m honest with the group, I think we’ve got a lot of decent players but probably nobody quite standing out yet, certainly not amongst the younger players who you would hang your hat on. Feeney, Broadhead, Bowler, Adenarin & Hornby all look impressive but they are 19-20 and I do think that window of opportunity will be closing on them quite quickly. I think all of them will have good careers out of the game, we should get a decent fee for all of tehm with a hefty sell on value but I am not sure they will be ready to play in the first team next summer which is kind of the acid test.
The lads below that probably have a bit more of a chance. I really like the look of Gordon, who as an under 18 is getting into the best reserve team in the league and regularly showing promise. Astley is much the same and Gibson being 2 years younger than Feeney stands him in good stead. They need to keep kicking on, but there is a potential they could make the jump up if they keep improving over the next 18 months or so.
It will be fascinating to know Brands thoughts on it all though. Will he view it as necessary to start including some of these lads for Silva to prevent us having to spend money in the transfer window? At Holland they tend to have a broader longer term plan that involves that approach and maybe he thinks that can work for us? I don’t know, it will be interesting.
Of all the names mentioned while I can say I don’t believe any of the older age will make it and the younger age will need to keep developing I can’t say I’d be surprised if I saw any of them in the first team next season. It might sound a contradiction but young players tend to go in fits and starts, and have surges in development. Most of them are probably a big jump and a bit of good fortune away. None of them would let Everton down, I’m just not quite sure they will be good enough to beat the door down.
The budget for his side is reasonable but by no means the biggest and what you would also say is that in terms of under 18’s while we are generally in the top 10 we are not at the absolute pinnacle of the league. He seems to take players from the 18’s and generally improve them. Broadhead is probably the latest one who has really come on leaps and bounds under him.
If I’m honest with the group, I think we’ve got a lot of decent players but probably nobody quite standing out yet, certainly not amongst the younger players who you would hang your hat on. Feeney, Broadhead, Bowler, Adenarin & Hornby all look impressive but they are 19-20 and I do think that window of opportunity will be closing on them quite quickly. I think all of them will have good careers out of the game, we should get a decent fee for all of tehm with a hefty sell on value but I am not sure they will be ready to play in the first team next summer which is kind of the acid test.
The lads below that probably have a bit more of a chance. I really like the look of Gordon, who as an under 18 is getting into the best reserve team in the league and regularly showing promise. Astley is much the same and Gibson being 2 years younger than Feeney stands him in good stead. They need to keep kicking on, but there is a potential they could make the jump up if they keep improving over the next 18 months or so.
It will be fascinating to know Brands thoughts on it all though. Will he view it as necessary to start including some of these lads for Silva to prevent us having to spend money in the transfer window? At Holland they tend to have a broader longer term plan that involves that approach and maybe he thinks that can work for us? I don’t know, it will be interesting.
Of all the names mentioned while I can say I don’t believe any of the older age will make it and the younger age will need to keep developing I can’t say I’d be surprised if I saw any of them in the first team next season. It might sound a contradiction but young players tend to go in fits and starts, and have surges in development. Most of them are probably a big jump and a bit of good fortune away. None of them would let Everton down, I’m just not quite sure they will be good enough to beat the door down.
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
our aim isn't to avoid relegation, for god's sake, it's for top 7. you think the 6 or 7 teams below us averaging less than a point a game are suddenly all going to start averaging two points a game? We're clearly safe, but still have an outside change for europe, so rightly he's not going to start chucking lads from the u18's (jumping ahead of those who have been playing u23's for a couple of years now) into the first team.
Hows Markelo doing tbought club had hogh hopes for him