Development/Youth Squads 2023/2024 Thread - U18/U21

[Ryy]

Let’s start this off with a signing. 
 

 

[Lesta2014]

Big year for the academy, we need someone to break through properly. About time we had a striker come through but can’t see that happening. I’m gunna go with Wanya Marcel the one to break through next season. 

[alanf0x]

So were the under 21s relegated aswell?

[AKCJ]

Hopefully Alves and Braybrooke can make the step up. I imagine they'd both be ready to be involved in preseason.

[AjcW]

5 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Hopefully Alves and Braybrooke can make the step up. I imagine they'd both be ready to be involved in preseason.

I was going to ask if anyone knew timelines. 
 

Alves should be a potential for August but Sammy was an ACL in Feb so that could easily be October 

Edited 30 May 2023 by AjcW

[Ryy]

6 minutes ago, alanf0x said:

So were the under 21s relegated aswell?

Yes

[moore_94]

4 minutes ago, AjcW said:

I was going to ask if anyone knew timelines. 
 

Alves should be a potential for August but Sammy was an ACL in Feb so that could easily be October 

Just from going off our previous ACL injuries...

 

Ricardo did his in March 2020 and his first game back was December 2020

 

JJ did his in February 2021 and his first game back was January 2022

 

By the same time scales Alves could be September / October and Sammy would be November / December

 

You would hope for earlier but honestly can't really see either involved in the first team at all in the 1st half of the season, 2nd half of the season you could maybe hope for a loan out to start getting fit again but probably just going to have to play in the under 21s again

 

Both basically losing about 18 months of development due to assault (Alves) and an unfortunate accident (Braybrooke)

[alanf0x]

14 minutes ago, Nannypig7 said:

Yes

Oh dear. I hope Rudkin isn’t overseeing that part of the football club aswell. Surely he wouldn’t survive a double relegation in 1 season…

[st albans fox]

2 minutes ago, alanf0x said:

Oh dear. I hope Rudkin isn’t overseeing that part of the football club aswell. Surely he wouldn’t survive a double relegation in 1 season…

Surely not ......

just watch him

[South Shire Fox]

How many Villa bums we picking up this year then? Ill say 3

[Lambert09]

not getting braybrooke  a loan last summer is going to really bite us now 

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

not getting braybrooke  a loan last summer is going to really bite us now 

And playing him in the U21s the day before transfer deadline day in Jan when he did his ACL was stupidity.

[Smooch85]

Ben Nelson should be in contention to step up, apart from Alves and Sammy its slim pickings. Brunt is no where near standard, I don’t think wormleighton progressed at all. 
 

hopefully wanya gets a chance, but apart from him the others will don’t cut it at championship level. 

[Ryy]

3 minutes ago, Smooch85 said:

Ben Nelson should be in contention to step up, apart from Alves and Sammy its slim pickings. Brunt is no where near standard, I don’t think wormleighton progressed at all. 
 

hopefully wanya gets a chance, but apart from him the others will don’t cut it at championship level. 

Wanya and Maswanhise will get s chance 

[Smooch85]

Maswanhise should have been given a debut 18 months ago when he was in top form, absolute waste players picked infront of him completely rocked his confidence and hasn’t looked the same since. Maybe under a new boss, but you gotta get rid of petty first 

[Ric Flair]

10 minutes ago, Smooch85 said:

Ben Nelson should be in contention to step up, apart from Alves and Sammy its slim pickings. Brunt is no where near standard, I don’t think wormleighton progressed at all. 
 

hopefully wanya gets a chance, but apart from him the others will don’t cut it at championship level. 

I think Wormleighton still has plenty of progression in his grasp. Arguably might be more likely now we've dropped.

 

I'm also interested to see what happens to Popov, Logan Briggs and Richards next season.

[coolhandfox]

One or the few benefits of dropping is we may bring a few more though.

[Molson Canadian]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-transfer-confirmed-international-8479287

[Smooch85]

Just now, Ric Flair said:

I think Wormleighton still has plenty of progression in his grasp. Arguably might be more likely now we've dropped.

 

I'm also interested to see what happens to Popov, Logan Briggs and Richards next season.

Wormo looked good, definitely has good attributes. He was nowhere near as good as the previous season, far too many simple mistakes. I mean they were all poor, confidence was gone but Sammy always stood out. 
 

popov needs to get fit and have a run of games for once, as for the other 2 they look decent. But championship standard at this moment? No way. But this is the perfect time to give those some cameos and who knows maybe they will slot right in. But if we are doing that we need some proper steady pros in too. 

[dmayne7]

Thought I'd already posted this

 

So I guess the consensus is that the following have some chance of being involved next year, to varying degrees (those who watch the youth teams input appreciated!):

 

Important part of the squad (pending injury recovery:

 

- Alves

- Braybrooke

 

Chance of being involved/would like to see:

- Marcal-Mavidadua

- Maswanhise

- Nelson

- Stolarczyk

- Wormleighton

 

On the fringes but not going to be good enough:

 

- MacAteer

- Brunt

[dmayne7]

6 minutes ago, Smooch85 said:

Maswanhise should have been given a debut 18 months ago when he was in top form, absolute waste players picked infront of him completely rocked his confidence and hasn’t looked the same since. Maybe under a new boss, but you gotta get rid of petty first 

Absolute nonsense decision by Brendan (I'm as shocked as you...)

 

He was very raw but considering we had no wide players and he looked decent in pre season, why he wasn't give the odd run out, I'll never know. Didn't he start this season really well playing up front and banging them in? Definitely worth a go as 4th choice winger/3rd choice striker.

[lcfcsnow]

34 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

And playing him in the U21s the day before transfer deadline day in Jan when he did his ACL was stupidity.

Braybrooke and Alves both did ACL's in games they shouldn't have been playing in, bet that doesn't make the 'review' but another example of the mess we're in.

[Smooch85]

1 minute ago, dmayne7 said:

Absolute nonsense decision by Brendan (I'm as shocked as you...)

 

He was very raw but considering we had no wide players and he looked decent in pre season, why he wasn't give the odd run out, I'll never know. Didn't he start this season really well playing up front and banging them in? Definitely worth a go as 4th choice winger/3rd choice striker.

He was scoring for fun in an abysmal team. Any other manager would have given him a go the form he was in. He’s definitely a confidence player though. You never no, new manager comes in a starts him first game and he bags….

[moore_94]

17 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I think Wormleighton still has plenty of progression in his grasp. Arguably might be more likely now we've dropped.

 

I'm also interested to see what happens to Popov, Logan Briggs and Richards next season.

Probably be a while before see Popov again, had to have an operation on his ankle

[reynard]

59 minutes ago, Smooch85 said:

Ben Nelson should be in contention to step up, apart from Alves and Sammy its slim pickings. Brunt is no where near standard, I don’t think wormleighton progressed at all. 
 

hopefully wanya gets a chance, but apart from him the others will don’t cut it at championship level. 

Exactly why the whole club coaching set up needs replacing. No good having great facilities if the people employed in it are useless.