Oliver Jurgens

[PNM]

Young Estonian striker. Di Marzio has us linked with Valencia and Inter Milan

 

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/oliver-jurgens-verona-inter-leicester-4480110

Edited 2 September 2020 by PNM

[Ric Flair]

Reminds me of a lad I used to play U10's with, scored about 165 a season. Brutal stats they are in the Estonian league, what an absolute bagsman.

[dmayne7]

Pretty sure we were linked with him before or I at least recognise the name. Meant to be very, very good.

[weller54]

Difficult to know whether to stick or twist on this one.

[Pliskin]

1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

Reminds me of a lad I used to play U10's with, scored about 165 a season. Brutal stats they are in the Estonian league, what an absolute bagsman.

Same here, although the lad I played with was a centre back.... took the piss a bit really. 

[Lesta2014]

One for the 23s I’d guess, the next Raul uche?

[Stevosevic]

Silly goal to game ratio even if it's only youth level. 

[Pliskin]

He will sign for Real no doubt, and then rot in their B team before being shipped off to Lanzerote FC. Young talents like him often get butchered by the super powers and then thrown away like a used johnny. 

[dmayne7]

2 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

He will sign for Real no doubt, and then rot in their B team before being shipped off to Lanzerote FC. Young talents like him often get butchered by the super powers and then thrown away like a used johnny. 

Sadly true. And often these prodigies are so good because they're just way bigger and quicker than the other kids their age and then everybody else slowly catches up. Stick on top the mentality needed to succeed and it's no wonder so many do nothing.

[LCCFox96]

Never heard of him but that's a spicy scorecard in terms of goals to games. If you can put up those numbers, even in youth football, you've got something about you. We could do a lot worse than rolling than dice and taking a punt on him for the Development Squad. Equally, he could do a lot worse than going with our academy set up, with a clearer pathway to first team football than some of the historically bigger clubs.

[Ric Flair]

I was hoping this summer would see us increase our calibre of youth players now that our new training ground is on the horizon. Given the financial uncertainties of the coming years, this as always is an avenue worth pursuing. 

 

Hoping to see us take a share of the talent Belgian clubs seem to recruit at a young age, Genk alone have produced an XI of top xlass players in the last 5-10 years.

[Pliskin]

He’s do so much more if he came to us. But unfortunately these lads just see the big clubs calling and get sucked in. Hiroke Abe will suffer the same fate unfortunately. It’s why I was so impressed Kramaric chose to join us, but then it went a bit tits for him. 

[honeybradger]

31 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I was hoping this summer would see us increase our calibre of youth players now that our new training ground is on the horizon. Given the financial uncertainties of the coming years, this as always is an avenue worth pursuing. 

 

Hoping to see us take a share of the talent Belgian clubs seem to recruit at a young age, Genk alone have produced an XI of top xlass players in the last 5-10 years.

Talent does well at genk because they offer youngsters first team game time which we're not able to offer. 

[TJB-fox]

48 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

He will sign for Real no doubt, and then rot in their B team before being shipped off to Lanzerote FC. Young talents like him often get butchered by the super powers and then thrown away like a used johnny. 

Kapustka, Raul Uche, Josh Gordon, George Thomas, Leon Crncic... 

[Sly]

Freddy Adu

Anderson

Adriano

Valeri Bojinov

Antonio Cassano

McCauley Christantus

Sebastian Diesler

Denilson

Diego

Royston Drenthe

Wayne Harrison

Michael Johnson

Bojan

Neil Lamptney

Macheda

Duncan Edwards

Alexander Pato

Lars Ricken

Javier Saviola

Lee Sharpe

Ricardo Quaresma

Ravel Morrisson

Mario Ballotelli

Alvaro Recoba

Joe Cole

Robinho

Anthony Le Tallec

Gianlugi Lentini

Jack Wilshire

Micah Richards

Mario Gotze

Yohan Gourcuff

Giueseppe Rossi

Abou Diaby

Phil Jones

Adnan Januzaj

 

Some had decent careers but could have done better.

 

Some had great potential but flopped.

 

Some lost careers due to injuries or passed away.

 

Some we’re overhyped by the football manager hype train. 
 

Some were flat track bullies in poor leagues, that couldn’t cut it at the top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[turkish14]

6 hours ago, Sly said:

Freddy Adu

Anderson

Adriano

Valeri Bojinov

Antonio Cassano

McCauley Christantus

Sebastian Diesler

Denilson

Diego

Royston Drenthe

Wayne Harrison

Michael Johnson

Bojan

Neil Lamptney

Macheda

Duncan Edwards

Alexander Pato

Lars Ricken

Javier Saviola

Lee Sharpe

Ricardo Quaresma

Ravel Morrisson

Mario Ballotelli

Alvaro Recoba

Joe Cole

Robinho

Anthony Le Tallec

Gianlugi Lentini

Jack Wilshire

Micah Richards

Mario Gotze

Yohan Gourcuff

Giueseppe Rossi

Abou Diaby

Phil Jones

Adnan Januzaj

 

Some had decent careers but could have done better.

 

Some had great potential but flopped.

 

Some lost careers due to injuries or passed away.

 

Some we’re overhyped by the football manager hype train. 
 

Some were flat track bullies in poor leagues, that couldn’t cut it at the top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was that young lad in the 90’s called sonny pike. Joined Ajax youth academy I think, and was dubbed the next “pele”

 

out of interest which players died? I know about lars ricken but that was post retirement.

 

edit: Duncan Edwards of course 😞

Edited 3 September 2020 by turkish14

[NewquayFox]

Might be wrong but wasn’t Vardy a prolific goal scorer in his younger days, this lad might have played a lot of his football in the lower leagues of Estonia and developed his strikers instincts but imagine if he had a couple of seasons learning his trade off the master... 

[Finnegan]

 

Baller 

Edited 3 September 2020 by Finnegan

[Sly]

2 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Baller 

I’m glad you could see what was going on! 

[Finnegan]

Just now, Sly said:

I’m glad you could see what was going on! 

 

There's one on there he won't let me embed for some reason that cracked me up

 

https://youtu.be/CVSx9hk8-ms

 

[Mike Oxlong]

Just now, Sly said:

I’m glad you could see what was going on! 

Yeah, why did all those players in yellow keep running towards each other every now and again ? 

[CloudFox]

Looks like a wonderkid in the making...would be great if we can start signing up Youth players like this to complement our homegrown bunch.

 

Also, pretty pleased to see us mentioned alongside Inter and Valencia as options for a player. Beats bloody West Ham and Everton!

[CloudFox]

5 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

There's one on there he won't let me embed for some reason that cracked me up

 

https://youtu.be/CVSx9hk8-ms

 

Fuchs and him to co-host a segment on LCFCTV - you heard it here first 😆

 

Edited 3 September 2020 by CloudFox

[Ric Flair]

2 minutes ago, CloudFox said:

Looks like a wonderkid in the making...would be great if we can start signing up Youth players like this to complement our homegrown bunch.

 

Also, pretty pleased to see us mentioned alongside Inter and Valencia as options for a player. Beats bloody West Ham and Everton!

I honestly think our training ground is what will peak these little fellas interest much more than before, and give us more of a chance of snapping them up.

 

I really want us to become a conveyor belt of blistering young players, football tends to bore me these days and I get more enjoyment from seeing players break through without fear.

[ALC Fox]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

Freddy Adu

Anderson

Adriano

Valeri Bojinov

Antonio Cassano

McCauley Christantus

Sebastian Diesler

Denilson

Diego

Royston Drenthe

Wayne Harrison

Michael Johnson

Bojan

Neil Lamptney

Macheda

Duncan Edwards

Alexander Pato

Lars Ricken

Javier Saviola

Lee Sharpe

Ricardo Quaresma

Ravel Morrisson

Mario Ballotelli

Alvaro Recoba

Joe Cole

Robinho

Anthony Le Tallec

Gianlugi Lentini

Jack Wilshire

Micah Richards

Mario Gotze

Yohan Gourcuff

Giueseppe Rossi

Abou Diaby

Phil Jones

Adnan Januzaj

 

Some had decent careers but could have done better.

 

Some had great potential but flopped.

 

Some lost careers due to injuries or passed away.

 

Some we’re overhyped by the football manager hype train. 
 

Some were flat track bullies in poor leagues, that couldn’t cut it at the top.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erling Braut Håland

Cristiano Ronaldo

Lionel Messi

Ryan Giggs

David Beckham

Ronaldo

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Gareth Bale

Michael Owen

Steven Gerrard

Ashley Cole

John Terry

Rio Ferdinand

Francesco Totti

 

Just a few players who were hyped as youngsters and followed through and had/are having brilliant careers at the top level.

 

It's always easier to say that a kid isn't going to make it at the top because most of them don't. Also the average career length of a professional footballer is only 8 years according to the PFA.

 

Conversely, putting too much pressure on some of them can contribute to them never making it.

 

But I can't understand why people aren't excited to see young players coming through and are on a downer about it, regardless of what club they play for and nationality they are. When Rooney scored that goal against Arsenal for Everton, I played that video back over and over again.

 

This guy could be Erling Braut Håland or he could be Tomi Petrescu. Either way, it'd be exciting to find out, especially if he ended up on our books.