Who will be the next to breakthrough.

[themightyfin]

Lots of promise shown by our youngsters last year and some have continued to impress in Pre-season.

 

Who do you think will be the next young star to breakthrough this season and establish himself as a permanent fixture in the match day 18?

 

Hopefully some will get loans and get experience but who will be our net to breakthrough like Hamza did last season?

 

Josh Knight

Sam Hughes

Callum Elder(although he is 23!)

Darnell Johnson

George Thomas

Leyton Ndukwu

Josh Gordon

Conor Tee

Alexandru Pascanu

Louis Ramsay

Kieran Dewsbury-Hall

Callum Wright

Leandro Martis

Raul Uche

Ryan Loft

Admiral Muskwe

 

Plus others no doubt will be pushing to make an impression.

With Barnes Iverson and More our on loan I can't remember the last time we had so much potential in our youngsters.

 

Personally I think Leyton Ndukwu will be the one but there are many to choose from! Conor Tee is so impressing the right people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[foxinsocks]

Me

[UPinCarolina]

Johnson seems to be next by default for the First Team. I'd imagine Elder might be sniffing around as well.

A few of those ought to be on loan if they don't figure into First Team plans soon - Hughes, Gordon, Thomas.

[1972 Fox]

Hoping that it will be Layton Ndukwu or Josh Knight myself as I knew them both from a young age.

 

Although I'd be happy to see as many as possible from your list. Would be great to see three or four home grown players break through to our first team.

[Finnegan]

Hughes and Johnson seem to be the most obvious given our frailty in the squad. 

[Buce]

24 minutes ago, themightyfin said:

Lots of promise shown by our youngsters last year and some have continued to impress in Pre-season.

 

Who do you think will be the next young star to breakthrough this season and establish himself as a permanent fixture in the match day 18?

 

Hopefully some will get loans and get experience but who will be our net to breakthrough like Hamza did last season?

 

Josh Knight

Sam Hughes

Callum Elder(although he is 23!)

Darnell Johnson

George Thomas

Leyton Ndukwu

Josh Gordon

Conor Tee

Alexandru Pascanu

Louis Ramsay

Kieran Dewsbury-Hall

Callum Wright

Leandro Martis

Raul Uche

Ryan Loft

Admiral Muskwe

 

Plus others no doubt will be pushing to make an impression.

With Barnes Iverson and More our on loan I can't remember the last time we had so much potential in our youngsters.

 

Personally I think Leyton Ndukwu will be the one but there are many to choose from! Conor Tee is so impressing the right people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think that boat has sailed. 

[urban.spaceman]

Depends who's next sent to Uncle Nigel!

[RutlanderFox]

I was really impressed with Gordon last night but he could do with a loan spell at championship or league one level maybe before he could be Premier League ready

[stevejpos]

39 minutes ago, themightyfin said:

Lots of promise shown by our youngsters last year and some have continued to impress in Pre-season.

 

Who do you think will be the next young star to breakthrough this season and establish himself as a permanent fixture in the match day 18?

 

Hopefully some will get loans and get experience but who will be our net to breakthrough like Hamza did last season?

 

Josh Knight

Sam Hughes

Callum Elder(although he is 23!)

Darnell Johnson

George Thomas

Leyton Ndukwu

Josh Gordon

Conor Tee

Alexandru Pascanu

Louis Ramsay

Kieran Dewsbury-Hall

Callum Wright

Leandro Martis

Raul Uche

Ryan Loft

Admiral Muskwe

 

Plus others no doubt will be pushing to make an impression.

With Barnes Iverson and More our on loan I can't remember the last time we had so much potential in our youngsters.

 

Personally I think Leyton Ndukwu will be the one but there are many to choose from! Conor Tee is so impressing the right people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep an eye out for Josh Eppiah....he broke into the U23s last season...he's 19...and he's like a quicker Mahrez....excellent player

[Gerard]

7 minutes ago, RutlanderFox said:

I was really impressed with Gordon last night but he could do with a loan spell at championship or league one level maybe before he could be Premier League ready

 

Josh Gordon and Calum Elder are both 24 in January.

 

Whilst it's unfair to write either of them off history would say they'll never be PL level.

[Fightforever]

12 minutes ago, stevejpos said:

Keep an eye out for Josh Eppiah....he broke into the U23s last season...he's 19...and he's like a quicker Mahrez....excellent player

Yeah I've been watching him for a while now he will turn good

[Spudulike]

I thought that Elder was going back to Wigwam

 

Interesting article on the BEEB about Premier League break throughs. Good to see Madders getting some recognition but I wouldn't fancy the chances of any Man City or Chelsea youngsters. When was the last time that Chelsea had a kid make it ?? John Terry ??

[MC Prussian]

I wouldn't call Hamza a "breakthrough" - he had a couple of first team matches last season, but that mainly out of the lack of other options when Ndidi and/or Iborra weren't available for a brief period (and King gone out on loan, plus James injured), not because Puel was truly favouring him.

 

Our record with youngsters making it is rather shocking. Apart from Heskey and most recently King, not much to boast about on that front.

Chilwell could turn into the new Leighton Baines, though - and that's my hope.

 

Maddison has looked promising in pre-season and I wish him well. Big fan.

 

Other than that, I liked what I saw from Gordon against Valencia and Johnson and Ndukwu have also left a lasting impression.

 

Then again, I guess we're not the only ones in that boat. Plenty of Premier League clubs can't or don't want to develop their own youngsters, instead prefer to buy abroad.

Edited 2 August 2018 by MC Prussian

[RutlanderFox]

7 minutes ago, Gerard said:

 

Josh Gordon and Calum Elder are both 24 in January.

 

Whilst it's unfair to write either of them off history would say they'll never be PL level.

 24 is quite old tbf (for this topic at least) but in Gordon’s defence we only signed him about 18 months ago I think. It’s not like he has been with us for years and hasn’t fulfilled potential, he could still be improving but who knows whether that will end up with us having a PL player on our hands. My point is I don’t think the club would have signed a 22 year old from non league if they thought he had no chance of being good enough for us one day

[themightyfin]

52 minutes ago, stevejpos said:

Keep an eye out for Josh Eppiah....he broke into the U23s last season...he's 19...and he's like a quicker Mahrez....excellent player

Yeah sorry forgot him off the list.Great potential

[lgfualol]

How old is Conor Tee and why have I never heard of him

[themightyfin]

2 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

How old is Conor Tee and why have I never heard of him

17. Maybe your a Spuds fan?

Edited 2 August 2018 by themightyfin

[Shane]

Whilst Puel is great at giving the kids a chance, I hope this doesn’t mean he will keep giving chances just because they’re young. For example, if Diabate doesn’t progress then hopefully Puel won’t persist with him and he’ll give someone like Ndukwu a chance instead. 

 

Feeling really positive about the youngsters coming through. As someone posted the other day, the step up might not be as difficult as we think as the likes of Rashford, Alexander-Arnold, Winks, Tom Davies, Loftus-Cheek, etc have all looked good in the PL.

[themightyfin]

1 minute ago, Shane said:

Whilst Puel is great at giving the kids a chance, I hope this doesn’t mean he will keep giving chances just because they’re young. For example, if Diabate doesn’t progress then hopefully Puel won’t persist with him and he’ll give someone like Ndukwu a chance instead. 

 

Feeling really positive about the youngsters coming through. As someone posted the other day, the step up might not be as difficult as we think as the likes of Rashford, Alexander-Arnold, Winks, Tom Davies, Loftus-Cheek, etc have all looked good in the PL.

Yet some of our fans think Chillwell and Gray are crap.

[Shane]

My prediction:

 

18/19: Johnson, Elder, Ndukwu

 

19/20: Hughes, Barnes, Thomas

 

20/21: Knight, Tee, Eppiah

Edited 2 August 2018 by Shane

[Shane]

4 minutes ago, themightyfin said:

Yet some of our fans think Chillwell and Gray are crap.

When Rashford was promoted to the first team he wasn’t even Man Utd’s best Youth striker at the time. These kids just need a chance to shine I feel. Look at Hamza! He looks a completely different player to the one we saw struggle at Burton .

[lgfualol]

29 minutes ago, themightyfin said:

17. Maybe your a Spuds fan?

 

How dare ye.

 

Hope he turns out good. Who exactly is he impressing? Will he be in the u23s this year?

[themightyfin]

19 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

How dare ye.

 

Hope he turns out good. Who exactly is he impressing? Will he be in the u23s this year?

I don't pick the team unfortunately but yes I'd expect him to step up 

[cropstonfox]

36 minutes ago, themightyfin said:

Yet some of our fans think Chillwell and Gray are crap.

Yes they are a liability.

If any of f the Academy players are no better then we might as well close it down and spend the money on scouting from lower leagues and other Academies. 

[StriderHiryu]

In preseason Darnell has looked decent and he might get a chance in the first game of the season. I could see him being a squad player this season.