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Everton Youth Teams Thread

catcherintherye said:
Yes good point.

I think there are a few points here though. Firstly the age for a debut has generally increased. It's also worth noting most of the debuts made above were very much the exception to the norm even back then, we had a glut of promoting strikers (you can throw Michael Branch and Nick Chadwick in too). So generally players can break through a little later.

I would also say with Simms, and at the risk of being blunt, I am quite surprised he's as close as where he is now. I watched him at 16/17 and I really wasn't sure of him at all. He seemed to lack a lot of the basics (knowing how to run, where to run, how to use physicality etc). I didn't have him down as a lad who'd get near the first team.

He really kicked on in the 2nd year and has had a good year this year working with Unsworth. He needs a loan I think where he gets booted and toughened up and finds his own solutions to that.

On a side note I watched our win against Sunderland last night and what a footballer Jeffers was. Pace, composure, movement, time on the ball, vision, anticipation etc. Miles ahead of any of our attacking players. What a waste that lads career was.
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I watched him played against burton Albion this season in the leasing.com trophy, he scored with a nice finish and looked ok, Unsworth spent a lot of the time shouting/guiding him through the game from the touch line
 

I actually don’t see us promoting any of our youth players unless there world beaters now days (Rooney or maybe Barkley standard)
We’ve got a massive squad with them all on big wages and I think the managers who have brought garbage in the last few seasons would much rather play there big money signings rather than resorting to youth and Bigger squads mean less places up for grabs. I’m not saying we should be throwing them all into the first team but we rarely see the bench including a youngster or 2. It took us a long time this season to give Gordon a chance ( and it’s been a shocking season).
I liked what unsworth did when he was in charge for a few games. Benni, kenny, Davies then in the Europa he gave chances to Gordon, feeney, Charsley and a few more
 
stretford blue said:
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk

Derby County's head of academy recruitment Chris Perkins leaves for Everton

Derby County news: Linking up in the Premier League with Carlo Ancelotti and Marcel Brands at Goodison Park is Chris Perkins, the Rams' now former head of academy recruitment
www.derbytelegraph.co.uk
There academy seems to have done really well the last few seasons
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Have I got this wrong , I thought we were about to sign him months ago ? I just recall looking at his and Derby‘s youth record and thinking it was a good move for us. This is the only place I’d discuss it so does anybody else remember this?
 

I don’t know much about Chris Perkins, don’t think he played professionally with any club, but Derby County youngsters have had a good season, before the season finished abruptly, their U18’s knocked Everton out of the FA youth cup and looked a good team, four or five of their youngsters from their Acadamy have made their first first team this season, so hopefully we have got somebody who will revitalise our own youth teams set up, it certainly needed looking at and has stagnated since Martin Waldron left nearly two years ago.
 
Cameron Manning said:
I don’t know much about Chris Perkins, don’t think he played professionally with any club, but Derby County youngsters have had a good season, before the season finished abruptly, their U18’s knocked Everton out of the FA youth cup and looked a good team, four or five of their youngsters from their Acadamy have made their first first team this season, so hopefully we have got somebody who will revitalise our own youth teams set up, it certainly needed looking at and has stagnated since Martin Waldron left nearly two years ago.
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Hopefully with the ban on the academy up this year will help his cause .
Assume this is a brands appointment and we should see a greater influence coming through
 
Billy Dean said:
No longer one of our but...

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Walsh was the player more than any of the others in and around his age group I was desperate to see break through. He was brilliant to watch and seemed so far ahead of the likes of Davies who jumped passed him..
Him not making it is honestly why I have become so much less optimistic about any of our kids and find it hard to get excited anymore. I was gutted when he left.
 

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