Pre Season bored thread 01 - Current Ex-Academy XI

[NeilA1878]

Impressive work there ??. I wouldn’t classify Cho as an Academy product though, he came from PSG and went back to France after about 18 months , people generate strange fume around his name like we failed somehow. For centre forwards , Fraser Hornby and Courtney Duffus are out there somewhere if you can track them down , Bassala Sambou was at Crewe last I heard . None would add anything to your team though.

Yeah his family moved back for France for work... nothing else to it. Nothing we could have done.

 

[Encoder]

Joao Silva - Hebei FC

 

[blueloon]

It was 5 years?

Not sure. I came across him when he was in the same England u15 side as Thierry Small about 2018. The only info I could find was a video clip of him at PSG as a teenager, then by 2020 he’d gone. I see Real Sociedad have just signed him.

 

[EFC_FRANCIS]

Not sure. I came across him when he was in the same England u15 side as Thierry Small about 2018. The only info I could find was a video clip of him at PSG as a teenager, then by 2020 he’d gone. I see Real Sociedad have just signed him.

He joined us from West Ham as a U11 (I think possibly u12) and then played up from there. Left at 16. Yes 12 million, think the hype has died down a bit on him now but a good player. If he learns to finish he will be very good. He didn't play a single game in his 16 year old season for the 18s and not much was made of it when he did leave.