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

[TommyK]

Watchable anywhere?

[AjcW]

16 minutes ago, Smooch85 said:

U21 vs Newcastle 

young

cover 

nelson

HGF

TWB

popov

Alves 

richards 

cartwright 

pennant 

raikhy

 

subs

ali

briggs

grist

amartey

doherty

 

 

Seems a bit much for Nelson? 
 

Great to see some Alves minutes though!

[Noahfence]

Be great if Alves can have a run of u21 games now 

[Firework]

This is the team from the previous fixture!

[moore_94]

Losing 1-0

[moore_94]

57 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Seems a bit much for Nelson? 
 

Great to see some Alves minutes though!

Alves not playing unfortunately

 

Edited 8 January 2024 by moore_94

[AjcW]

35 minutes ago, Firework said:

This is the team from the previous fixture!

Good spot!  
 

 

[moore_94]

1-1

 

Godsmark-Ford goal, Briggs assist

[Salieri]

Losing 2-1 now, how the hell is Petty still in a job? Clueless. 

[moore_94]

2-2 in the 94th minute!

 

Finally our turn to get a late goal!

 

Oli Ewing the scorer

Edited 8 January 2024 by moore_94

[moore_94]

 

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

Finished 5-2. Alves with a hat trick.

[AKCJ]

Alves not involved? I thought he was back?

[AjcW]

54 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

Alves not involved? I thought he was back?

I’d say he’s currently in a shitty limbo. We’re one midfield injury away from needing him in the squad… but he needs games… but we can’t risk him getting injured too  

[Lillehamring]

1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

 

Newcastle have some pretty shite form, to be fair.

Strange that it wasn't at seagrave?

[moore_94]

3 minutes ago, Lillehamring said:

Newcastle have some pretty shite form, to be fair.

Strange that it wasn't at seagrave?

It will have been at Seagrave, they just haven't updated that website that we have moved

[BKLFox]

Six academy grads in one game

Thanks to the rotation by Maresca for the FA Cup tie at Millwall at the weekend, six of the 13 players to feature were graduates from City’s academy: Jakub Stolarczyk, Ben Nelson, Hamza Choudhury, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Wanya Marcal, and Tawanda Maswanhise.
Four of the six, including debutant Maswanhise joined the club at under-nine level.

That now takes the total number of academy players used this season to seven, with Kasey McAteer involved as well, and it’s likely to be eight before the campaign is out with Maresca a big fan of Will Alves.

The number of local lads involved means it’s unlikely that City’s streak of having at least one academy player in every senior matchday squad will end soon. The run is now up to 257 games, starting more than five years ago.

Will probably have another 2 in Alves & Braybrooke shortly but will show existing & future academy players that there is a path if they knuckledown.

 

Futures bright & hopefully the facilities, coupled with the above, start to bear more fruit in enticing quality players to us...just not sure about current coaches but i'm sure this will be addressed at some point.

[moore_94]

Job advert put out for Head of Academy Player Development

 

This is the role that Paul Mcguinness was doing

 

https://trainingground.guru/jobs-listings/head-of-academy-player-development

Edited 11 January 2024 by moore_94

[Ric Flair]

56 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Job advert put out for Head of Academy Player Development

 

This is the role that Paul Mcguinness was doing

 

Interesting to see who gets this!!! Wish we'd go and get Idiakez back.

[Frances Dempsey]

On 08/01/2024 at 20:55, moore_94 said:

2-2 in the 94th minute!

 

Finally our turn to get a late goal!

 

Oli Ewing the scorer

Well done oli. Hopefully another one back soon with you!

[Mint23]

3 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Job advert put out for Head of Academy Player Development

 

This is the role that Paul Mcguinness was doing

 

Be interesting to know what the job pays and how it compares to similar roles in other academies . 

[moore_94]

Hopefully we see Alves play for the under 21s tonight

[SemperEadem]

On 28/10/2023 at 10:00, Ric Flair said:

Not team news or in game updates. Think they've done the odd post game article but it's pretty poor from them. 

Has it improved? 
Would be a question to ask if not why the club are posting a lot less about reserve and age group stuff at the next FCC.

[moore_94]

2 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

Has it improved? 
Would be a question to ask if not why the club are posting a lot less about reserve and age group stuff at the next FCC.

Definitely hasn't improved at all

 

Playing tonight and you wouldn't have a clue unless you actively searched online for the under 21s fixtures

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/vardy-alves-fatawu--leicester-9034949

By

Jordan Blackwell

• 12:46, 15 JAN 2024
• UPDATED13:04, 15 JAN 2024

 

Will Alves is slowly getting closer to a position where he can push for a first senior outing under Maresca. The manager said on the teenage attacking midfielder last week: “Will is back with us, doing part of the session, but he’s not full training with us.”