Fingers crossed for this £2m signing.Sarr can't, Phillips can if he stays 3 years and isn't loaned out
Was he Ange's pick?
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Fingers crossed for this £2m signing.Sarr can't, Phillips can if he stays 3 years and isn't loaned out
Solomon HG ?New list:
2023-24 NEW 1 VICARIO NON HG 2 FORSTER HG 3 AUSTIN HG 4 WHITEMAN HG 5 DAVIES HG 6 VDV NON HG 7 PHILLIPS HG 8 ROMERO NON-HG 9 DIER NON-HG 10 ROYAL NON-HG 11 PORRO NON-HG 12 SESSEGNON HG 13 PERISIC NON-HG 14 UDOGIE U 21 15 HOJBJERG NON-HG 16 BISSOUMA NON-HG 17 LO CELSO NON-HG 18 BENTANCUR NON-HG 19 MADDISON HG 20 SARR U 21 21 SKIPP HG 22 JOHNSON HG 23 SOLOMON HG 24 KULUSEVSKI NON-HG 25 GIL NON-HG 26 RICHARLISON NON-HG 27 SON NON-HG 28 VELIZ NON-HG HG TOTAL 8 NON-HG TOTAL 16 U 21 4 28
You've messed up your table, your totals don't match what you're showing. e.g. 2x U-21 in the list but you are saying there are 4.New list:
2023-24 NEW 1 VICARIO NON HG 2 FORSTER HG 3 AUSTIN HG 4 WHITEMAN HG 5 DAVIES HG 6 VDV NON HG 7 PHILLIPS HG 8 ROMERO NON-HG 9 DIER NON-HG 10 ROYAL NON-HG 11 PORRO NON-HG 12 SESSEGNON HG 13 PERISIC NON-HG 14 UDOGIE U 21 15 HOJBJERG NON-HG 16 BISSOUMA NON-HG 17 LO CELSO NON-HG 18 BENTANCUR NON-HG 19 MADDISON HG 20 SARR U 21 21 SKIPP HG 22 JOHNSON HG 23 SOLOMON HG 24 KULUSEVSKI NON-HG 25 GIL NON-HG 26 RICHARLISON NON-HG 27 SON NON-HG 28 VELIZ NON-HG HG TOTAL 8 NON-HG TOTAL 16 U 21 4 28
ThanksNew list:
2023-24 NEW 1 VICARIO NON HG 2 FORSTER HG 3 AUSTIN HG 4 WHITEMAN HG 5 DAVIES HG 6 VDV NON HG 7 PHILLIPS HG 8 ROMERO NON-HG 9 DIER NON-HG 10 ROYAL NON-HG 11 PORRO NON-HG 12 SESSEGNON HG 13 PERISIC NON-HG 14 UDOGIE U 21 15 HOJBJERG NON-HG 16 BISSOUMA NON-HG 17 LO CELSO NON-HG 18 BENTANCUR NON-HG 19 MADDISON HG 20 SARR U 21 21 SKIPP HG 22 JOHNSON HG 23 SOLOMON HG 24 KULUSEVSKI NON-HG 25 GIL NON-HG 26 RICHARLISON NON-HG 27 SON NON-HG 28 VELIZ NON-HG HG TOTAL 8 NON-HG TOTAL 16 U 21 4 28
My copy and paste went askew.Thanks
1) Manor Solomon can never be HG, he's 24 and moved to Fulham a year ago and trained overseas
2) We have Austin and Whiteman as HG but as only need one 3rd GK
So that's 6 HG.
3) Veliz currently u21
Roll forward 12 months to start of 24/25 and Sarr, Udogieand, Veliz will all become 'non HG' or Overseas trained players meaning we start off the transfer window with 19 'non HG players - ie we need to 'lose' two of them (not a real problem as Dier and Perisic contracts will come to an end).
However if Davies, Sessegnon and Forster leave (all of which is possible as we might decide to upgrade all 3), we are left with :
Club Trained Players - Skipp and Austin
Players Trained by other clubs affiliated to FA and FAW - Maddison, Johnson (Phillips probably still u21),
Or 4 HG players (plus Phillips).
So we might want to buy one HG player next summer, but our real gap is in Club trained players. We do have a decent crop coming through from the Academy so just need to hope manager helps them develop into First Team - players such as Devine, Scarlett, Donley, (possibly Phillips dependent upon whether he needs to be loaned out), Craig and a few others.
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2023-24 | NON HG | HG | U21 | ||
1 | VICARIO | NON HG | 1 | ||
2 | FORSTER | HG | 1 | ||
3 | AUSTIN | HG | 2 | ||
4 | WHITEMAN | HG | 3 | ||
5 | DAVIES | HG | 4 | ||
6 | VDV | NON HG | 2 | ||
7 | PHILLIPS | U 21 | 1 | ||
8 | ROMERO | NON-HG | 3 | ||
9 | DIER | NON-HG | 4 | ||
10 | ROYAL | NON-HG | 5 | ||
11 | PORRO | NON-HG | 6 | ||
12 | SESSEGNON | HG | 5 | ||
13 | PERISIC | NON-HG | 7 | ||
14 | UDOGIE | U 21 | 2 | ||
15 | HOJBJERG | NON-HG | 8 | ||
16 | BISSOUMA | NON-HG | 9 | ||
17 | LO CELSO | NON-HG | 10 | ||
18 | BENTANCUR | NON-HG | 11 | ||
19 | MADDISON | HG | 6 | ||
20 | SARR | U 21 | 3 | ||
21 | SKIPP | HG | 7 | ||
22 | JOHNSON | HG | 8 | ||
23 | SOLOMON | NON HG | 12 | ||
24 | KULUSEVSKI | NON-HG | 13 | ||
25 | GIL | NON-HG | 14 | ||
26 | RICHARLISON | NON-HG | 15 | ||
27 | SON | NON-HG | 16 | ||
28 | VELIZ | U 21 | 4 | ||
TOTAL | 16 | 8 | 4 | ||
HG TOTAL | 8 | ||||
NON-HG TOTAL | 16 | ||||
U 21 | 4 | ||||
28 |
New list:
2023-24 NEW 1 VICARIO NON HG 2 FORSTER HG 3 AUSTIN HG 4 WHITEMAN HG 5 DAVIES HG 6 VDV NON HG 7 PHILLIPS U21 8 ROMERO NON-HG 9 DIER NON-HG 10 ROYAL NON-HG 11 PORRO NON-HG 12 SESSEGNON HG 13 PERISIC NON-HG 14 UDOGIE U 21 15 HOJBJERG NON-HG 16 BISSOUMA NON-HG 17 LO CELSO NON-HG 18 BENTANCUR NON-HG 19 MADDISON HG 20 SARR U 21 21 SKIPP HG 22 JOHNSON HG 23 SOLOMON NON HG 24 KULUSEVSKI NON-HG 25 GIL NON-HG 26 RICHARLISON NON-HG 27 SON NON-HG 28 VELIZ U21 HG TOTAL 8 NON-HG TOTAL 16 U 21 4 28
Great post. Ange is the ideal man to oversee this new chapterRoll forward 12 months to start of 24/25 and Sarr, Udogie and, Veliz will all become 'non HG' or Overseas trained players meaning we start off the transfer window with 19 'non HG players - ie we need to 'lose' two of them (not a real problem as Dier and Perisic contracts will come to an end).
However if Davies, Sessegnon and Forster leave (all of which is possible as we might decide to upgrade all 3), we are left with :
Club Trained Players - Skipp and Austin
Players Trained by other clubs affiliated to FA and FAW - Maddison, Johnson (Phillips probably still u21),
Or 4 HG players (plus Phillips).
So we might want to buy one HG player next summer, but our real gap is in Club trained players. We do have a decent crop coming through from the Academy so just need to hope manager helps them develop into First Team - players such as Devine, Scarlett, Donley, (possibly Phillips dependent upon whether he needs to be loaned out), Craig and a few others.
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Cut price, you say?Yahoo via football insider saying Tosin back on the menu in January. Cut price deal.
The current HG crisis shows how poorly the squad has been managed in the last years
I hope we don't overspend on average HG players that won't add any value to the squad.
We also lost a very talented youth player this summer, can't remember his name.Poor squad management has been for last decade, starting with Poch's sale of a number of Academy players for £100m to buy the likes of Sissoko but over the 6 years of his reign as manager only brought through one player, Winks which is an appalling statistic. Included in his sales was Milos Veljcovic who has been CB for Werder Bremen for some 200 appearances plus two dozen for Serbia and faced Kane when he made his debut for Bayern.
Mourhino helped by loaning out Skipp for a season to get better prepared for PL and giving debuts to Devine, Scarlett and a couple of others, but Conte was a disaster.
One of the side effects of poor youth development has been fewer good youth staying (as there are clubs with better development records) - players such as Spurs u16 captain Madueke decided to leave before signing a contract as have a few other potentially good players.
But fortunately there are still a few coming through who might make the grade at Spurs - so its down to a combination of Ange and those organising loans to help convert some potential into first team squad players over the next couple of years.
Cut price, you say?
We also lost a very talented youth player this summer, can't remember his name.
Agree on Poch no loan policy between 2015–2019 and 4 years of Mourinho, Nuno, Conte have brought us to this stage.
Surprisingly enough, Mourinho of all coaches has had more impact on our youth setup than all other managers combined in the last 7/8 years.
Not listened to the podcast but read about it a while ago. Wasn't just us, there were a few clubs that brought in quite strict wages for youth players to try and keep them grounded. I think at least Spurs, Liverpool and Saints brought it in and expected other clubs to follow them in doing so but instead other clubs didn't and then Saints decided to increase their wage structure and nabbed 2 of our best u16 prospects who are now playing with England u18s. Rule changes to do with brexit and young players from abroad mean clubs like Chelsea and Man City are willing to offer more to try and entice players from UK academies before they can sign pro-contracts so we sort of had to follow suit if we wanted to keep players like Moore and OlusesiI forget which podcast talked about this a few weeks ago in detail, but we've completely changed our wage scale for Academy stand-outs. The former Director (possibly Rastrick) had a strict policy about limiting wages to keep the players hungry to achieve 1st Team status. That led to a lot of Academy defections. If we didn't significantly increase our pay, then Mikey Moore and others would have likely had to leave for better opportunities elsewhere. Anyway, the club trained problem should improve over the next several years, as a result of these wage increase.
Imagine Carl Johnson is talking about MundleAgree with all that.
I think you are thinking about last summer when we lost Samuel Amo-Ayeyaw (AM) and Jayden Meghoma (LB) to Southampton - both E youth regulars who declined to sign scholarship terms really due to our record on development and probably wages too. Amo-Ameyaw has made his PL debut with them as well as being involved in Championship matches this season and Meghoma his Carabou cup, despite both being only 17.
Both losses of very good youngsters who we might well regret - I was delighted we managed to hang onto Moore and Olusesi this summer who were being hunted by a few clubs, and again two of our best players in that age group.
YESImagine Carl Johnson is talking about Mundle
I was talking about MundleAgree with all that.
I think you are thinking about last summer when we lost Samuel Amo-Ayeyaw (AM) and Jayden Meghoma (LB) to Southampton - both E youth regulars who declined to sign scholarship terms really due to our record on development and probably wages too. Amo-Ameyaw has made his PL debut with them as well as being involved in Championship matches this season and Meghoma his Carabou cup, despite both being only 17.
Both losses of very good youngsters who we might well regret - I was delighted we managed to hang onto Moore and Olusesi this summer who were being hunted by a few clubs, and again two of our best players in that age group.