Glad Harvey Foster played well, he was brilliant in the Next Gen cup, seems he's maybe had injury troubles this season?
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So you can’t,
Ha ha nobody is shocked John , that you can’t live up to expectations, feel
Sorry for your Mrs
Where does he play ??
EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £35m
Olayiwola went from being quite timid and flattering to deceive to being impressive in the last ten minutes. You can see why they think highly of him with his ball carrying.
Defensive midfielder mate. Played as a mostly sole pivot in the Summer tourny and plays a bit like Busquets.
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Mate you’re obsessed with Dyche, there was a thread the other week ( Chermitti? ) that you turned into a Dyche thread. Why turn a comment about Armstrong into a defence of Dyche? Of course there’s a massive gap for a 17 year old to bridge but you don’t do it by bringing him on with 3 mins to go in a match where we’re 4-0 up and he’s so eager to make an impression he gets himself booked. The fact he hasn’t been able to make an impression in the PL is not as you suggest, it’s because in the other match he came on at the 90 th minute.! So that probably gives him about 6 minutes of PL experience, both in matches where the result was a foregone conclusion and only then did Dyche bring him on.….Dyche and the coaches clearly know what they have with Armstrong, hence his first team game time already this season. The fact that he’s not been able to make an impression in appearances shows the massive gap to the top level but he’ll be managed until he builds into a first teamer. I’m really chuffed he stood out last night.
Funny thing is, he lives almost opposite my 96 year old mother-in-law and literally 3 doors down from where Tom Davies was raised. Been a good road for Everton.
Good recruitment work from Thelwell getting the likes of Clarke and Graham (let’s hope he’s fit soon) in. Posters on here know my long held view that a good run in the FA Youth Cup is a sign of a future top player or two. Onwards and upwards.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
….Dyche and the coaches clearly know what they have with Armstrong, hence his first team game time already this season. The fact that he’s not been able to make an impression in appearances shows the massive gap to the top level but he’ll be managed until he builds into a first teamer. I’m really chuffed he stood out last night.
Funny thing is, he lives almost opposite my 96 year old mother-in-law and literally 3 doors down from where Tom Davies was raised. Been a good road for Everton
Good recruitment work from Thelwell getting the likes of Clarke and Graham (let’s hope he’s fit soon) in. Posters on here know my long held view that a good run in the FA Youth Cup is a sign of a future top player or two. Onwards and upwards.
Look at the extensive experience Dyche has given to...
Harrison Armstrong
Roman Dixon
I'm intrigued by your pointing to Armstrong not "being able to make an impression in appearances". What kind of impression would you expect him to have made in those extremely limited minutes?
There is absolutely and categorically no evidence, as in zero to suggest Dyche can manage young players. Nothing to suggest he can coach them either.
Of one thing I can be certain and that is the two others you mention in Clarke and Graham would benefit from a different manager to Sean Dyche if they are to have a hope of making the impact which the signs are pointing towards.
He's done his upmost NOT to use young players unless there is no alternative.
Olayiwola looks like he’s going to have the physical size too, it’s been a while since an u16 got so many minutes so early in the season. I think with him Gardner and Matos we’re going to have a group who can develop together in midfield.
EFC_FRANCIS
Player Valuation: £35m
I hope so, i cant remember the last central midfielder to have been pushed this early, possibly Ledson or Davies.
It was a running theme last night of just how much more physically mature we were vs Forest, not sure if they fielded a team of first years or not but it looked like men against boys. A lot of well built athletes in our squad, first time I've been properly impressed by Morgan who had a bit of hype around him a couple years back. Clarke at 16 looks a grown man and seems only a matter of time before his U21s promotion.
One of the interesting things about the match was that Forest were not that bad. Their left winger was giving Finney a fairly torrid time in the first half and they obviously had a number of players happy to run with the ball and play some nice passes. But Baines got them playing to their strengths - which doesn't mean that there was a lack of skill at all - but Forest were undone by the speed, strength and height of our squad. The third goal was a lovely move. Apparently we are playing them again in just over a week in the league.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
saturday week at 12 in the u18 PL cup
Not neccesarily (or even at all) the same thing tbf.
I actually disagree. Find the plain shirts so, well, plain, and boring without something on the front.
Slam dunk by Zat!
Yep - exactly, you only have to look at how Klopp introduced his young players. The sad fact is that if Armstrong was being managed by someone like Klopp he'd have been given a lot more playing time in the first team. Same goes for Dixon. Dyche is a disaster for young players, as have most of our managers in the last twenty years.