All his four assist were something, tbh, the guy seems to have a hell of a vision for a pass
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I'd suggest Bergval will be kept with first team next season, and although not from Spurs youth, IMO Ange would still need to ease him in gently, so maybe 10 appearances part from bench and a few starts - I don't think he'd be planned for that much more.
If you add in Hall (even though he's relatively similar in playing place to Bergval), maybe a few appearances off the bench for a 17 year old Mikey Moore, and I'm sure there will be one or two others in u21's who might be deserving - that's 3 to 5 players and I can't see Ange wanting to give playing time to more than that otherwise each will get only a few minutes each which won't help with their development
And that assumes we can find good clubs for loans to Phillips, Soonsup-Bell, Keeley, Devine, Scarlett, Santiago, Donley, Dorrington and Lankshear (9 players) which seems to be a tall order so one or two might not get loans and would gain from Ange giving them a few minutes to be part of the 3-5 youngsters.
...having seen what Klopp did today with the younger players (albeit enforced in some situations) makes me think even more that Ange will try playing the kids (or at least rotate heavily) AGAIN in next seasons' EFL Competition...
The logic being, if they're not good enough to get through the early rounds, then they're certainly not ready for a Final!
I'd love the idea of Donley, Mikey Moore, Dorrington, Lankshear, Veliz dancing round Wembley alongside 'old heads' Vicario, Romero, VDV, Udogie, Sarr & Maddison etc. with a Winners medal round their necks a year from today... but they have to be ready (and able) to come in and play at ANY given time next season - either individually, or as a group - or else, if they're not up to the standard needed to help win the thing, we'll simply be accused of not taking the competition seriously (again) by playing them....
The logic being, if they're not good enough to get through the early rounds, then they're certainly not ready for a Final!
I'd love the idea of Donley, Mikey Moore, Dorrington, Lankshear, Veliz dancing round Wembley alongside 'old heads' Vicario, Romero, VDV, Udogie, Sarr & Maddison etc. with a Winners medal round their necks a year from today... but they have to be ready (and able) to come in and play at ANY given time next season - either individually, or as a group - or else, if they're not up to the standard needed to help win the thing, we'll simply be accused of not taking the competition seriously (again) by playing them....
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4 rookie subs today, all from the academy - 19-year-old duo Bobby Clark and James McConnell, along with 18-year-old Jayden Danns. and 21 year old Jarrell Quansah
Add in Kelleher, Alexander- Arnold, Harvey Elliott, and Connor Bradley that's 8 academy graduates who are in Liverpool's first team pool, albeit stretched through injury.
No reason why Spurs do not build up that sort of number.
Think that is what ange was hinting at a couple of weeks ago when he got criticised for slagging off our academy
I thought it was pretty clear what Ange meant and was surprised others took it mean something else. He wasn't criticising the potential of the current crop of players, just that they're mostly a year or two off realistically being ready to be Premier league level squad players. With the likes of Devine, Bergvall, Phillips, Vuskovic brought in to supplement the likes of Dane, Donley, Dorrington, Moore, we should be in a much better position in a couple of years. As Ange said Simon Davies has been working on making it so there's a production line of talented players so there are options coming through every year which both gives the manager more options and allows current academy players to go out on loan to develop themselves.
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To be fair, that's also probably a big part of the reason why Klopp wants to move on.
He shouldn't be having to rely on kids in a cup final and his squad is no where near good enough to be able to compete in four cups, let alone what they're doing in the league and he's getting every last bit out of them. No wonder he's drained and in need of a break.
That and he has a few stars like Salah (age 31) who are at the end of their playing lives and replacing them will not be easy
They used to have a very good recruitment team led by Edwards (ex Spurs, and responsible for bringing in Salah, GK Alisson, Van Dijk et al) but he left 3 or 4 years or so ago and they haven't found an adequate replacement yet, which has been a pressing need for at least 2 years. Without that all they can do is overpay and hope for the best - hence bringing in Nunez.
In the summer, Salah, Trent and Van Dijk will have just 12 months left on their contract.
I think Klopp is getting out just like Ferguson did. At the right time.
Makes you think what he would do with City’s backing or even Arse’s.
If Liverpool are wise they will take the hit in the summer on Salah with the Saudi clubs. Probably get £150m or more then reinvest but you can see a rebuild for Liverpool this summer.
Dont think there's a chance in hell they get anything close to that with him having a year left. Doubt they'd even get 60m at best tbh. And Liverpool will either have to suck it up or see him walk on a free.
I think Trent will probably sign a new deal but van Dijk is an interesting one too. He's quite obviously back to his best or as close to. Will he sign a new deal? Not getting any younger. I can see someone testing their resolve.
Malachi Hardy started again in a 3-0 win for England u16 against South Korea and England won the tournament after winning all their games.
View: https://twitter.com/youthhawk/status/1762109661858177282
View: https://twitter.com/youthhawk/status/1762109661858177282
View: https://x.com/Spurs_Academy/status/1762168248001249286?s=20
Another of the 2nd year academy players getting a pro contract which is necessary to get into u21's
He's becoming a much better LCB/LB than he used to be
Not sure if it's already been said but one of the Fleetwood u21's CBs was 39
It’s a new rule. If the kid can’t play for whatever reason his dad has to take his place
Lovely to see Markanday doing so well tonight