With one up front, when will he play? Smith and Obika are ahead of him. If he can play in the three behind then maybe.
He didn't play in the centre forward position on Tuesday.With one up front, when will he play? Smith and Obika are ahead of him. If he can play in the three behind then maybe.
He needs to stay with the squad, even being on the bench would help his development. A relatively small 16 year old would get kicked lumps out of them in the conference which would hamper rather than help his development. Worth remembering that he is 3 years younger than Napa, in development terms that is a considerable difference!
Keeping him in the U23’s means the coaches can keep an eye on his development rather than relying on another clubs agenda to get the most out of a short term loan.
GOODFor those that have seen him play, what type of forward is he?
As long as they pay full price to get in..This kid is the real deal. KR and everyone else should stop talking him up otherwise we'll have more scouts than fans at games.
GOOD
He is a young lad when fights for the ball not afraid to get stuck in, as regard whether he is a poacher, we won’t know that until we see him more regularly, but as Robbo says he is one for the future. Still only 16 and raw and having watched him innpre season and Tuesday you can feel it in your bones that he will be good.? But good in what way? Is he a poacher? Is he skillful on the ball?
He would have more chance of progressing with us. Problem is too many of these promising young players go to the bigger clubs and then promptly disappear without trace. Our coaching set up is as good as anywhere else for him and KR does have history of developing young players.
who have an excellent record of producing playersTbf he has already been at a big club in Portugal, Sporting Lisbon I think.
Without checking anything, I think there is an option to go out on 'work experience' at another club, which is maybe how we get round this...?Almost certain you can go out on loan before signing a pro contract, I can't think of who did it but it happened last season or the one before and the rules are a bit different where the player can come back and play for the youth team as well as for the feeder club
EDIT: On further inspection I may be talking B*****s
There’s also ‘Youth Loans’ isn’t there?Without checking anything, I think there is an option to go out on 'work experience' at another club, which is maybe how we get round this...?