Development/Youth Squads 2021/2022 Thread

[notnow john]

4 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

It's got a bit of everything

In a word, fiction!

 

4 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

It's got a bit of everything

 

[Ant495]

I think Wanya, Kian Pennant & Tawanda Maswanhise will be on bench for Liverpool fc game

[Ric Flair]

12 minutes ago, Ant495 said:

I think Wanya, Kian Pennant & Tawanda Maswanhise will be on bench for Liverpool fc game

2 of those are currently injured and Maswanhise seems to have fallen down the pecking order with Rodgers. Gone from being plucked straight from U18's and bypassing U23's and training with the first team for the back end of last season where he was on the be ch at Old Trafford, to being one of our most promising players in pre-season and Rodgers saying he'd be staying here this season to further develop and ay U23's as well, where he's been our standout player and yet that seems to have made him less of a consideration for Rodgers. Odd when we've only 2 wingers and 1 ACM currently available to us.

[Ryy]

I don’t know why Brunt is around the first team no disrespect to him but 🤷🏼🤷🏼

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Nannypig7 said:

I don’t know why Brunt is around the first team no disrespect to him but 🤷🏼🤷🏼

Same, Grist and Godsmark-Ford obviously not considered remotely ready.

[Leycestrian]

17 hours ago, Nannypig7 said:

Ewing, Brunt, Flynn, Nelson, McAteer, Braybrooke all trained with the first team today

Defenders and midfielders. Maybe BR thinks he doesn't need to look at forwards.

Whatever the reason for who is chosen, it's great for them to be included in the first team training.

[Ric Flair]

2 hours ago, Leycestrian said:

Defenders and midfielders. Maybe BR thinks he doesn't need to look at forwards.

Whatever the reason for who is chosen, it's great for them to be included in the first team training.

Baring in mind the U23's have decided to ignore strikers and play a 5ft 4 midfielder up front instead, I can see why Rodgers isn't filled with confidence.

[moore_94]

Tomorrow nights Under 23 game against Blackburn is still meant to be on, being shown on LCFC TV as well

 

https://www.lcfc.com/news/2416448/leicesters-under23s-to-face-blackburn-live-on-lcfc-tv

 

There is still a few tickets available as well!

Edited 16 December 2021 by moore_94

[st albans fox]

26 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Tomorrow nights Under 23 game against Blackburn is still meant to be on, being shown on LCFC TV as well

 

https://www.lcfc.com/news/2416448/leicesters-under23s-to-face-blackburn-live-on-lcfc-tv

 

There is still a few tickets available as well!

BBC said the training ground is shut for 48 hours ???

[moore_94]

2 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

BBC said the training ground is shut for 48 hours ???

Only first team areas

 

Not sure what it will mean for the under 23 players that have been training with the first team though

 

Edited 16 December 2021 by moore_94

[Fox on the Rox]

2 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Only first team areas

 

Not sure what it will mean for the under 23 players that have been training with the first team though

 

I believe they have been sent home and will not be available for the u23's match

[rachhere]

This is going to be the longest winter ever... 

 

 

[Ryy]

Here’s a photo of Leicester legend Habib Makanjuola to lift the mood 

[rachhere]

2 minutes ago, Nannypig7 said:

Here’s a photo of Leicester legend Habib Makanjuola to lift the mood 

Thank you. That did slightly lift my spirits.

[moore_94]

 

[Ryy]

23 hours ago, moore_94 said:

 

Should be scouting Brazil not Scotland 😤

[sdb]

On 17/12/2021 at 17:47, moore_94 said:

 

Easiest job in footy, that! 

 

"Yeah I've scouted every player from 7 to 30 and there's nothing"

[Foxxed]

3 hours ago, Nannypig7 said:

Should be scouting Brazil not Scotland 😤

Work permits are more of a problem now within the EU so it makes sense to look where that isn't a problem I guess.

[moore_94]

2 minutes ago, Foxxed said:

Work permits are more of a problem now within the EU so it makes sense to look where that isn't a problem I guess.

Young players are actually a lot easier to pick up from South America now compared to the EU

 

They score massive points towards a work permit from playing in the Copa Libertadores which is weighted the same as playing in the Champions League

[Foxxed]

12 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Young players are actually a lot easier to pick up from South America now compared to the EU

 

They score massive points towards a work permit from playing in the Copa Libertadores which is weighted the same as playing in the Champions League

Interesting. I didn’t know that. I was thinking about Scotland verses EU countries though. I suspect it’s easier to get the next wonderkid from Scotland here rather than from France or Germany. 

[urban.spaceman]

19 hours ago, sdb said:

Easiest job in footy, that! 

 

"Yeah I've scouted every player from 7 to 30 and there's nothing"

"31-38 however is where it's really at"

[urban.spaceman]

https://theathletic.com/3021986/2021/12/18/paul-mcguinness-joins-leicester-academy-as-part-of-coaching-reshuffle/?source=emp_shared_article&redirected=1

 

Re-shuffle abound.

 

Beaglehole is now part time, working just one day a week. Ben Petty is currently overseeing the U23s with Adam Barradell overseeing the U18s. Paul Cheney is Head of Academy Coach Development while Paul McGuinness is Head of Academy Player Development.

 

Our academy staff structure is listed on: https://trainingground.guru/articles/mcguinness-takes-on-new-head-of-player-development-role-at-leicester

[Ric Flair]

Paul McGuinness really is a huge coup for our academy and matches exactly what I've longed for here. Massive well done to the club.

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-academy-paul-mcguinness-6371508

 

How Leicester City have lifted their academy to 'another level'
Leicester City hired a former Manchester United coach to an important role in their successful academy

ByLuke PawleyMidlands Football Writer
07:00, 21 DEC 2021
SPORT

Leicester City's academy continues to go from strength to strength.

We are seeing that more than ever, with Harvey Barnes, Luke Thomas, Hamza Choudhury and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall establishing themselves in the first team.

The club has always produced youngsters, from Julian Joachim to Emile Heskey, Matt Piper to Andy King, Jeff Schlupp to Ben Chilwell. It's something City fans have always, even in the bleakest of times, been proud of.

Last week, the club made another huge step forward with the appointment of Paul McGuinness as their new Head of Academy Player Development.

McGuinness spent 23 years as a coach at Man United, with much of it spent managing their under-18 side, including the famous 2011 FA Youth Cup winning squad including Paul Pogba and Ravel Morrison.

He also worked with former City players Danny Drinkwater, Matty James, Ritchie de Laet, Danny Simpson and Tom Lawrence.

During his time with the Red Devils, the 55-year-old saw 86 academy graduates make their first team debuts, with 23 becoming senior internationals.

Upon his exit from Manchester United in February 2016, McGuinness said: “It has been an honour and a privilege to follow in my father Wilf’s footsteps and to serve Manchester United in a variety of roles for a total of 28 years.

“I have dedicated my life to each job, from player to education and welfare officer, to Centre of Excellence director and scout, assistant academy director for under-9s to under-16s and later under-17s to under-21s, head coach for the professional development phase and finally youth-team coach.

“I will be forever grateful to Sir Alex Ferguson for making my dreams come true and inviting me to represent Manchester United as a player and for the last 23 years as a proud member of staff.”

Seven months after leaving United, he set up a football consultancy business and, the following year, became a National Coach Developer with the Football Association.

During four years with the FA, McGuinness worked with countless coaches across the football pyramid and was involved in devising a new coaching model which is now widely used across the country.

When the opportunity at Leicester came calling, he was lured away from the FA as he missed the day-to-day work of coaching and building relationships with players and other coaches at a professional club.

At City, he will have overall responsibility for the development of players from the ages of eight to 18 and will be tasked with preparing them for the transitions to under-23 and first team football.

McGuinness is widely respected as one of the best youth coaches in the game and has a key set of beliefs he will likely bring to Leicester.

Off the pitch, he insists on implementing and reinforcing high standards until they become a 'way of life', shaping what players do and who they are as people.

On it, he is a big advocate of street football, with many games at Man United played in 'cages', like you may see on some urban streets.

A mix of age groups would often come together to play 13 vs 13 games in the cage at United's Carrington training ground. The younger players always learned from playing with their elders - who themselves reinforced their own learning through coaching their younger clubmates.

These games are the most natural and effective way for young players to learn, McGuiness believes. It encourages players to play at high speed and improve, read the game and react to it quicker.

What's more, these games can forge a brotherly bond between players who would not otherwise mix. When Marcus Rashford famously dived against Man City in the infancy of his United breakthrough, Jesse Lingard ran to protect his teammate from the backlash.

Rashford is six years younger than Lingard, but those famous games in the cage at Carrington are credited for their bond on and off the pitch.

McGuinness' arrival at Leicester City is the latest in a number of moves which have made other clubs sit up and pay even more attention to the way Leicester are running their academy.

Sources at other Category One academies say Leicester have taken their academy on to "another level" and other clubs are looking at City "more seriously than ever" as inspiration for how it should be done.

The future will be bright for City's young talent and the tree has already borne fruit with the likes of Harvey Barnes, Luke Thomas, Hamza Choudhury and now Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall establishing themselves in the first team squad.

Down the age groups, there is a huge crop of exciting talent who McGuinness and his colleagues have the pleasure of working with.

Leicester have a trio of regulars in the England under-18 squad: Ben Nelson, who is currently with the first team; Kian Pennant, nephew of former Liverpool winger Jermaine; and Sammy Braybrooke, who captained the national side during the last international break.

Pennant has scored 10 goals in 10 Under-18 Premier League games this season after netting 19 in 22 last term.

His strike partner Chris Popov, signed from Man United at the end of last season, has scored nine in 11.

A host of other young players have been called up for England under-15 and under-16 training camps over the past two years and there are high hopes for them all internally.

City are also casting their eyes on players even younger, and are looking across the Midlands. The club has development centres in Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Coventry, Northampton and Corby.

Every player on the club's books has an exciting future, with top coaches guiding them at each age group and McGuinness ultimately responsible for their development.

They will also see clearer opportunities to progress, with under-23 football and loan deals now available to them from a younger age since Brendan Rodgers shifted the club's outlook on the development squad.

The club has already come a long way since Rodgers' arrival in February 2019 and it will only go from strength to strength in the years ahead.

[Foxes96]

18 minutes ago, davieG said:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-academy-paul-mcguinness-6371508

 

How Leicester City have lifted their academy to 'another level'
Leicester City hired a former Manchester United coach to an important role in their successful academy

ByLuke PawleyMidlands Football Writer
07:00, 21 DEC 2021
SPORT

Leicester City's academy continues to go from strength to strength.

We are seeing that more than ever, with Harvey Barnes, Luke Thomas, Hamza Choudhury and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall establishing themselves in the first team.

The club has always produced youngsters, from Julian Joachim to Emile Heskey, Matt Piper to Andy King, Jeff Schlupp to Ben Chilwell. It's something City fans have always, even in the bleakest of times, been proud of.

Last week, the club made another huge step forward with the appointment of Paul McGuinness as their new Head of Academy Player Development.

McGuinness spent 23 years as a coach at Man United, with much of it spent managing their under-18 side, including the famous 2011 FA Youth Cup winning squad including Paul Pogba and Ravel Morrison.

He also worked with former City players Danny Drinkwater, Matty James, Ritchie de Laet, Danny Simpson and Tom Lawrence.

During his time with the Red Devils, the 55-year-old saw 86 academy graduates make their first team debuts, with 23 becoming senior internationals.

Upon his exit from Manchester United in February 2016, McGuinness said: “It has been an honour and a privilege to follow in my father Wilf’s footsteps and to serve Manchester United in a variety of roles for a total of 28 years.

“I have dedicated my life to each job, from player to education and welfare officer, to Centre of Excellence director and scout, assistant academy director for under-9s to under-16s and later under-17s to under-21s, head coach for the professional development phase and finally youth-team coach.

“I will be forever grateful to Sir Alex Ferguson for making my dreams come true and inviting me to represent Manchester United as a player and for the last 23 years as a proud member of staff.”

Seven months after leaving United, he set up a football consultancy business and, the following year, became a National Coach Developer with the Football Association.

During four years with the FA, McGuinness worked with countless coaches across the football pyramid and was involved in devising a new coaching model which is now widely used across the country.

When the opportunity at Leicester came calling, he was lured away from the FA as he missed the day-to-day work of coaching and building relationships with players and other coaches at a professional club.

At City, he will have overall responsibility for the development of players from the ages of eight to 18 and will be tasked with preparing them for the transitions to under-23 and first team football.

McGuinness is widely respected as one of the best youth coaches in the game and has a key set of beliefs he will likely bring to Leicester.

Off the pitch, he insists on implementing and reinforcing high standards until they become a 'way of life', shaping what players do and who they are as people.

On it, he is a big advocate of street football, with many games at Man United played in 'cages', like you may see on some urban streets.

A mix of age groups would often come together to play 13 vs 13 games in the cage at United's Carrington training ground. The younger players always learned from playing with their elders - who themselves reinforced their own learning through coaching their younger clubmates.

These games are the most natural and effective way for young players to learn, McGuiness believes. It encourages players to play at high speed and improve, read the game and react to it quicker.

What's more, these games can forge a brotherly bond between players who would not otherwise mix. When Marcus Rashford famously dived against Man City in the infancy of his United breakthrough, Jesse Lingard ran to protect his teammate from the backlash.

Rashford is six years younger than Lingard, but those famous games in the cage at Carrington are credited for their bond on and off the pitch.

McGuinness' arrival at Leicester City is the latest in a number of moves which have made other clubs sit up and pay even more attention to the way Leicester are running their academy.

Sources at other Category One academies say Leicester have taken their academy on to "another level" and other clubs are looking at City "more seriously than ever" as inspiration for how it should be done.

The future will be bright for City's young talent and the tree has already borne fruit with the likes of Harvey Barnes, Luke Thomas, Hamza Choudhury and now Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall establishing themselves in the first team squad.

Down the age groups, there is a huge crop of exciting talent who McGuinness and his colleagues have the pleasure of working with.

Leicester have a trio of regulars in the England under-18 squad: Ben Nelson, who is currently with the first team; Kian Pennant, nephew of former Liverpool winger Jermaine; and Sammy Braybrooke, who captained the national side during the last international break.

Pennant has scored 10 goals in 10 Under-18 Premier League games this season after netting 19 in 22 last term.

His strike partner Chris Popov, signed from Man United at the end of last season, has scored nine in 11.

A host of other young players have been called up for England under-15 and under-16 training camps over the past two years and there are high hopes for them all internally.

City are also casting their eyes on players even younger, and are looking across the Midlands. The club has development centres in Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Coventry, Northampton and Corby.

Every player on the club's books has an exciting future, with top coaches guiding them at each age group and McGuinness ultimately responsible for their development.

They will also see clearer opportunities to progress, with under-23 football and loan deals now available to them from a younger age since Brendan Rodgers shifted the club's outlook on the development squad.

The club has already come a long way since Rodgers' arrival in February 2019 and it will only go from strength to strength in the years ahead.

This is some of the most exciting aspects for me. We as fans want success and want it now. However, the new training ground, reshaping our academy and the stadium redevelopment will give us the best chance of competing over the longer term. Whatever happens on the pitch, off it we are continue to develop and grow into an established top premiership side which is not an overnight feat.