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Totti said:
A lot of those players are pretty average though.

Lesniak, Walkes, Harrison, Sterling will all be lucky to play Championship football in their careers. Then you have Amos, Oakley-Boothe, Georgiou, Carter-Vickers who simply won't make it here and will probably play Championship football in future and make a good career out of it.

The next lot of academy prospects seems to the best we've had since the Townsend, Kane, Mason days so I have no doubt they will get more chances.

Would be interested to see how that compares to other teams in the Premier League though....
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I don't disagree on most of your comments. The strange thing is that Poch did not give playing time to some of our better prospects - perhaps the best example being Milos Veljkovic now a fixture at Werder Bremen and played in WC for Serbia equally at home playing as either a DM or CB (and we could certainly do with him atm) - whilst giving token minutes to others.

But looking forward, the next wave of academy prospects coming through seem to be of a higher standard than we've had for a few years, so I'd hope a number of them get a try out, and we still have a group of around 19 year who I haven't given up on, including Eyoma (on bench yesterday) and his CB partner Tangana, GK's Whiteman and Austin and our Dele lookalike (in playing style) Roles.
 
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Think we will see some youth players in the squad in the week.

Who do we reckon? Skipp, Eyoma, Marsh perhaps.
 
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Think we will see some youth players in the squad in the week.

Who do we reckon? Skipp, Eyoma, Marsh perhaps.
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Its clear that Poch needs to get to a level of trust before he plays youngsters so all 3 of those played a fair amount in ore-season so are most likely - besides which Eyoma was on the bench v Burnley and Marsh 19th man v Barcelona.

Next most likely who might get a shot might include Oakley-Boothe (played in all 2017 preseason games after starring in WC u17, injured quite a lot since, seems to have played himself back into some form in last couple of youth games) CM, Jamie Bowden (played a bit in preseason 2018, been playing well this season) DM and Japhet Tanganga (played a bit in preseason 2018, spent most of pre-season playing E u19) CB/LB,

I don't see Poch calling for AM's or strikers (unless we have an injury crisis there), and think he will stick with those who went on pre-season as he knows them most and played with some of the first team. Otherwise outside chance of Anthony Georgiou who Poch liked well enough to play him for a few minutes but against a Cypriot side (AG is Cypriot u21) - he plays as a winger

Edit - Paris Maghoma also played a few minutes in preseason 2018, has been playing AM mostly this season but also plays as a CM. .
 
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