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Development/Youth Squads 2022/2023 Thread - U18/U21

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So U21s go a goal down, turn it around and go 2-1 up - get a penalty, should make it 3-1, miss that penalty and then conceded a second half equaliser.

Great to see the football philosophy and links between what is happening through the age groups and into the first team

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7 hours ago, The_Rorab said:

We always just seem to scrimp and save when it comes to the academy - not necessarily the worst thing to do, but I would love to see us just be a bit more ambitious with all aspects of the academy.

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...I  hear what you are saying, but this player could have gone through an academy, was released as not going to make the grade and has now developed!!!

  What happens to players who have been released, and has not found another club to go to, they end up in non league football because not all players develop at the same rate.

  It looks like we are still scouting. 

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8 hours ago, The_Rorab said:

I definitely don't begrudge the lad if he moves here, but I do feel like this is endemic of the kind of move that we always make - a 20yr old from the 7th tier.

 

Again, he could come good, I don't want to imply I'm writing him off and it's only a trial, but we always seem to just take the cast-offs from other academies and older players from non-league in our academy - then do nothing with them until we release them at 24 - there's hardly ever signings from other good academies or hot prospects unless they've been released or anything like that.

 

We always just seem to scrimp and save when it comes to the academy - not necessarily the worst thing to do, but I would love to see us just be a bit more ambitious with all aspects of the academy.

The lads we’ve picked up via non league have at the least gone on to have decent lower league careers (Wakeling and Gordon spring to mind). I don’t think we can say the same with the Villa cast offs. 
 

Williams is originally from West Brom - part of an academy team which were very, very good. 

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https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-notebook-two-more-8418722

 

The latest from inside Leicester City as the club look over a couple more young players ahead of next season, taking one from Aston Villa and another from non-league

 


ByJordan Blackwell
07:00, 6 MAY 2023

It seems it is trialist season at Leicester City, with two more young players arriving at Seagrave to be watched over by the club’s staff.

City had Manchester United forward Manni Norkett represent their Under-21s in a Premier League 2 fixture last week, and this week there was an appearance from Aston Villa midfielder Arjan Raikhy.

The 20-year-old has just been released on the other side of the Midlands, and now City are taking a look, handing him a start in the Premier League 2 draw with Manchester United on Friday afternoon.

 

 

 

Raikhy won the FA Youth Cup with Villa in 2021, and was one of the young players who made their senior debut in the FA Cup against Liverpool when the senior players were hit with Covid.

He went out on loan to Stockport and Grimsby in the National League last season, earning promotion with the latter, but has been back with Villa’s Under-21s this season.

He’s not the only player City are looking at. The club will also take 20-year-old centre-back Harry Williams on trial for a few days after he impressed with non-league side Alvechurch this term.

Williams is a former England youth international but after being released from West Brom’s academy, and then spending just a season with Burnley, he’s had a season of men’s football with Alvechurch, impressing enough for City to want to look at him.

There is EFL and Scottish Premiership interest in him, so if City do like him, they will face competition to keep him, given he will be going into their Under-21s, with other clubs able to offer him senior football.

It’s not an unusual route for Williams, as striker Jake Wakeling also went from West Brom to Alvechurch to City a couple of years ago. He’s now at Swindon in League Two, having contributed a combined 13 goals and assists in 44 appearances this season.

 

 

Huth watches over youngsters with decisions to make

Loans manager Robert Huth was at Carrington to watch City’s Under-21s against Man United, and he will be weighing up which youngsters are heading out on loan in the new season.

Since taking on the job, Huth has had success in getting players like Ben Nelson and Jakub Stolarczyk some much-needed game-time, while George Hirst has earned promotion with Ipswich.

There’s a few more young players who now need an opportunity to show what they can do in the senior game, with Wanya Marcal-Madivadua and Tawanda Maswanhise the obvious candidates. Will Alves and Sammy Braybrooke would also have been in contention for loans away had they not suffered ACL injuries in the winter.

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1 hour ago, CosbehFox said:

The lads we’ve picked up via non league have at the least gone on to have decent lower league careers (Wakeling and Gordon spring to mind). I don’t think we can say the same with the Villa cast offs. 
 

Williams is originally from West Brom - part of an academy team which were very, very good. 

Signing these sort of players and developing them into ones that can be sold into the FL for 500k + is a good way of raising revenue.

 

It just appears as though we forget the part that involves building their profile and selling them.

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It’s just dawned on me how awful this u21 team will be if we do the right thing and loan out maswanhise, Wanya and potentially braybrooke and Alves! You’d think there is gonna have to be some serious investment in the academy to stand a chance!

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2 hours ago, lcfc sheff said:

It’s just dawned on me how awful this u21 team will be if we do the right thing and loan out maswanhise, Wanya and potentially braybrooke and Alves! You’d think there is gonna have to be some serious investment in the academy to stand a chance!

....we do not need more investment in a monetary sense unless it is to bring in elite coaches and to re-organise the academy!!!

We need a different approach to how we treat these students, there is no hunger to succeed in games and we are very passive in games and are easily bullied. Wormleighton stands out as an aggressive and will-to-win player, an old-style defender with Popov very much of the same ilk.

  Anything short of winning the new league that we have now found ourselves in, and winning it well, would be a disappointment.

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6 hours ago, sacreblueits442 said:

....we do not need more investment in a monetary sense unless it is to bring in elite coaches and to re-organise the academy!!!

We need a different approach to how we treat these students, there is no hunger to succeed in games and we are very passive in games and are easily bullied. Wormleighton stands out as an aggressive and will-to-win player, an old-style defender with Popov very much of the same ilk.

  Anything short of winning the new league that we have now found ourselves in, and winning it well, would be a disappointment.

In my very uneducated opinion, my guess would be that the best U21s are loaned out to teams from League Two to the Championship, the best U18s are promoted to the U21s, the best U16s promoted to the U18s and so on, with a conveyor belt of talent eager to prove their worth at higher levels and the rest of the youth teams sort of making up the numbers.

 

Youth football is a strange beast as you kind of want to focus on developing a player and that results aren't as important as performance and growth but then you also need to give these players experience in pressure situations and games that matter.

 

It feels like something is amiss with our academy right now, yet we've still produced some decent PL quality players in recent years.

 

I feel like we haven't quite yet attained the kind of prestige where teams are clamouring over our castoffs, ready to part with a few million for the ones just below the level required to get into our first-team.

 

And, of course, we're very, very reluctant to give our best young talents game time for the first team at the moment. I'm hoping our next permanent manager knows how to manage our academy talent properly.

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14 hours ago, davieG said:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leicester-city-notebook-two-more-8418722

 

The latest from inside Leicester City as the club look over a couple more young players ahead of next season, taking one from Aston Villa and another from non-league

 


ByJordan Blackwell
07:00, 6 MAY 2023

It seems it is trialist season at Leicester City, with two more young players arriving at Seagrave to be watched over by the club’s staff.

City had Manchester United forward Manni Norkett represent their Under-21s in a Premier League 2 fixture last week, and this week there was an appearance from Aston Villa midfielder Arjan Raikhy.

The 20-year-old has just been released on the other side of the Midlands, and now City are taking a look, handing him a start in the Premier League 2 draw with Manchester United on Friday afternoon.

 

 

 

Raikhy won the FA Youth Cup with Villa in 2021, and was one of the young players who made their senior debut in the FA Cup against Liverpool when the senior players were hit with Covid.

He went out on loan to Stockport and Grimsby in the National League last season, earning promotion with the latter, but has been back with Villa’s Under-21s this season.

He’s not the only player City are looking at. The club will also take 20-year-old centre-back Harry Williams on trial for a few days after he impressed with non-league side Alvechurch this term.

Williams is a former England youth international but after being released from West Brom’s academy, and then spending just a season with Burnley, he’s had a season of men’s football with Alvechurch, impressing enough for City to want to look at him.

There is EFL and Scottish Premiership interest in him, so if City do like him, they will face competition to keep him, given he will be going into their Under-21s, with other clubs able to offer him senior football.

It’s not an unusual route for Williams, as striker Jake Wakeling also went from West Brom to Alvechurch to City a couple of years ago. He’s now at Swindon in League Two, having contributed a combined 13 goals and assists in 44 appearances this season.

 

 

Huth watches over youngsters with decisions to make

Loans manager Robert Huth was at Carrington to watch City’s Under-21s against Man United, and he will be weighing up which youngsters are heading out on loan in the new season.

Since taking on the job, Huth has had success in getting players like Ben Nelson and Jakub Stolarczyk some much-needed game-time, while George Hirst has earned promotion with Ipswich.

There’s a few more young players who now need an opportunity to show what they can do in the senior game, with Wanya Marcal-Madivadua and Tawanda Maswanhise the obvious candidates. Will Alves and Sammy Braybrooke would also have been in contention for loans away had they not suffered ACL injuries in the winter.

Dear lord. Can you talk about anybody else!!! There are more players out injured than those two. How many goals did they score when available and how many wins did they achieve. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!! 

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Under 21s are playing in their final game of the season this afternoon away at Everton, kick off at 2

 

Odunze, Wormleighton, Brunt, Amartey, Godsmark-Ford, Ali, Madivadua, Cover, K. Pennant, Trialist, Maswanhise

 

Subs: Young, Grist, Hill, Lewis, Richards

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https://www.lcfc.com/news/3340768/the-development-squads-202223-campaign?lang=en

 

The Development Squad's 2022/23 Campaign

 

A look back at this season's key moments for Leicester City's Under-21s through 33 matches across three different competitions.

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