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http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2007350573,00.htmlUnited Signs 9 Year old Rhain
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Simpson Rio Vidic Evra
Ronaldo Anderson Hargreaves Rhain
Tevez Rooney
Foster
Simpson Rio Vidic Evra
Ronaldo Anderson Hargreaves Rhain
Tevez Rooney
well IF this kid develops and gets into the first team by say 18 years old ferdinand wouls be 37...
Jeeese, he's not bad. He walked all over the other team.
It has been posted ages ago.
Kewell MK II
Without the injuries of course
Without the injuries of course
i thought we had to much rain! confused
OK, is he ready for Community Shield game??
He looks to be far too selfish on the ball. hes got the talent but not the right mentality. The next Denilson?
Sack Rhain, sign Messi
Needs to bulk up if he's going to play in the prem. That slight frame might be alright for the australian or spanish leagues, but not the PL.
Needs to learn how to stay down once fouled instead of this getting up again and doing more trickery .....
Need to have a more foreign sounding name to be more impressive
Rhainho would be good
Rhainho would be good
Does not seem comfortable with his left foot at all. Not good enough.
looks brilliant
but utd sign kids all the time
but utd sign kids all the time
He's young and learnin
Putting this in perspective....
When Rhain is 18, Rooney will be 30....
This is our next, next, next generation.
When Rhain is 18, Rooney will be 30....
This is our next, next, next generation.
Rooney 30! hard to imagine
Kewell MK II
Without the injuries of course
Wouldn't be a bad deal, that.
the new freddy adu! ;-)
Pressure + youth = failure
Eurosport - Thu, 02 Aug 11:04:00 2007
With news that Manchester United have signed a nine-year-old child in the hope he will turn out to be the next Cristiano Ronaldo, eurosport.yahoo.com suggests the pressures put on ever younger players these days is far too great for them to succeed at the highest level.
And to back up our claim, we have delved back in time to find a handful of other youngsters who have failed to live up to the great expectations placed on their small shoulders.
Nii Lamptey - Perhaps the most unfortunate of all the players on our list, Lamptey has endured terrible heartache since his rise to prominence as a 16-year-old at Anderlecht. Dubbed the 'new Pele', the Ghanaian dazzled fans with his silky skills and he won a move to PSV Eindhoven before Ron Atkinson brought him to Aston Villa in 1994. Once there though, his problems began as a legal wrangle with his agent led to a rapid decline in his fortunes. A string a clubs and four continents later, Lamptey returned to Ghana after being subjected to terrible racism during a spell in Germany and losing two children, one to a rare disease and the other soon after birth.
Valeri Bozhinov - The talented Bulgairan made his Serie A debut at the tender age of just 15, but has since failed to fulfil his vast potential. A respectable return of 16 goals in 65 games for Lecce prompted comparisons with Wayne Rooney and a big-money move to Fiorentina soon followed, but once in Florence the problems began both on and off the field. A loan spell with Juventus last year proved largely unsuccessful although his summer move to Manchester City could yet revive his career.
Freddy Adu - The great hope of US 'soccer' (pictured here) Adu tried, but failed, to make the jump to European football several times before eventually signing for Benfica earlier this summer. Another player dubbed as a 'new Pele', the Ghana-born striker made his MLS debut at the age of 14 but, despite the hype surrounding him, he could not hold down a place in DC United's starting XI. Like, Bozhinov, his move to Portugal could be the making of him as a player, or, indeed, the breaking of him.
Theo Walcott - Selected by Sven-Goran Eriksson to join the England squad at the 2006 World Cup, the nation were led to believe the then 17-year-old was some kind of secret weapon who was capable of bringing the famous trophy to England for the first time since 1966. Unfortunately, the Arsenal striker did not play a single minute in Germany and a year down the line, many people are still scratching their heads over his inclusion. Now 18, Walcott still has time to turn it round, but question marks remain over whether he can handle the pressure.
Cherno Samba - With a frankly ridiculous record of 132 goals in 32 games for Millwall's youth sides, the 14-year-old was quickly identified as the 'next big thing' back in 1998. But a protracted £1.5 million transfer to Liverpool fell through and he was eventually released by Millwall without having made his professional debut. He summed up his career progression rather succinctly by saying: "At 14 I played for the under-17s. I was still playing for the under-17s when I was 17, which means I didn't improve my football." Now 21, Samba is currently without a team after having been released by Plymouth at the end of last season.
Owen Price - A contemporary of Rooney and Wayne Routledge in the England youth teams, Tottenham paid Charlton £500,000 for the prodigy who entered the Guinness Book of Records for scoring the fastest ever video-taped goal as a 14-year-old. That goal even convinced a major boot sponsor to snap Price up, but the youngster could not make the grade at White Hart Lane and he eventually left to play in the Conference South for Lewes. From Sussex, he left England to play for Swedish first division side Sundsvall, and has since failed to re-appear on British football fans' radars.
Sonny Pike - At the tender age of seven, Dutch club Ajax saw Pike's huge potential and invited the promising toddler to train at their Academy of Excellence. But the pressure heaped on his shoulders at such a tender age proved too much to handle, and Pike could not continue in the path that was chosen for him. He explained: "I couldn't take it, and I got ill, really screwed up. I stopped going to training and stuff, because I was so screwed up I couldn't hack it." As a result, he suffered a nervous breakdown in 2000, before getting out of the game three years later. He is now studying psychology at Dundee University.
Compiled by Mike Hytner / Eurosport
Eurosport - Thu, 02 Aug 11:04:00 2007
With news that Manchester United have signed a nine-year-old child in the hope he will turn out to be the next Cristiano Ronaldo, eurosport.yahoo.com suggests the pressures put on ever younger players these days is far too great for them to succeed at the highest level.
And to back up our claim, we have delved back in time to find a handful of other youngsters who have failed to live up to the great expectations placed on their small shoulders.
Nii Lamptey - Perhaps the most unfortunate of all the players on our list, Lamptey has endured terrible heartache since his rise to prominence as a 16-year-old at Anderlecht. Dubbed the 'new Pele', the Ghanaian dazzled fans with his silky skills and he won a move to PSV Eindhoven before Ron Atkinson brought him to Aston Villa in 1994. Once there though, his problems began as a legal wrangle with his agent led to a rapid decline in his fortunes. A string a clubs and four continents later, Lamptey returned to Ghana after being subjected to terrible racism during a spell in Germany and losing two children, one to a rare disease and the other soon after birth.
Valeri Bozhinov - The talented Bulgairan made his Serie A debut at the tender age of just 15, but has since failed to fulfil his vast potential. A respectable return of 16 goals in 65 games for Lecce prompted comparisons with Wayne Rooney and a big-money move to Fiorentina soon followed, but once in Florence the problems began both on and off the field. A loan spell with Juventus last year proved largely unsuccessful although his summer move to Manchester City could yet revive his career.
Freddy Adu - The great hope of US 'soccer' (pictured here) Adu tried, but failed, to make the jump to European football several times before eventually signing for Benfica earlier this summer. Another player dubbed as a 'new Pele', the Ghana-born striker made his MLS debut at the age of 14 but, despite the hype surrounding him, he could not hold down a place in DC United's starting XI. Like, Bozhinov, his move to Portugal could be the making of him as a player, or, indeed, the breaking of him.
Theo Walcott - Selected by Sven-Goran Eriksson to join the England squad at the 2006 World Cup, the nation were led to believe the then 17-year-old was some kind of secret weapon who was capable of bringing the famous trophy to England for the first time since 1966. Unfortunately, the Arsenal striker did not play a single minute in Germany and a year down the line, many people are still scratching their heads over his inclusion. Now 18, Walcott still has time to turn it round, but question marks remain over whether he can handle the pressure.
Cherno Samba - With a frankly ridiculous record of 132 goals in 32 games for Millwall's youth sides, the 14-year-old was quickly identified as the 'next big thing' back in 1998. But a protracted £1.5 million transfer to Liverpool fell through and he was eventually released by Millwall without having made his professional debut. He summed up his career progression rather succinctly by saying: "At 14 I played for the under-17s. I was still playing for the under-17s when I was 17, which means I didn't improve my football." Now 21, Samba is currently without a team after having been released by Plymouth at the end of last season.
Owen Price - A contemporary of Rooney and Wayne Routledge in the England youth teams, Tottenham paid Charlton £500,000 for the prodigy who entered the Guinness Book of Records for scoring the fastest ever video-taped goal as a 14-year-old. That goal even convinced a major boot sponsor to snap Price up, but the youngster could not make the grade at White Hart Lane and he eventually left to play in the Conference South for Lewes. From Sussex, he left England to play for Swedish first division side Sundsvall, and has since failed to re-appear on British football fans' radars.
Sonny Pike - At the tender age of seven, Dutch club Ajax saw Pike's huge potential and invited the promising toddler to train at their Academy of Excellence. But the pressure heaped on his shoulders at such a tender age proved too much to handle, and Pike could not continue in the path that was chosen for him. He explained: "I couldn't take it, and I got ill, really screwed up. I stopped going to training and stuff, because I was so screwed up I couldn't hack it." As a result, he suffered a nervous breakdown in 2000, before getting out of the game three years later. He is now studying psychology at Dundee University.
Compiled by Mike Hytner / Eurosport
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United and Arsenal hot on the trail of talented 3 month foetus.....
United and Arsenal hot on the trail of talented 3 month foetus.....
sign up rooney's sperm
you cant deny, football wise, the kid looks great for a 9 year old.
I loved the way he did those stepovers ronaldo style. It was like half-stepovers considering his legs aren't that long to go a full step over the ball.Foster
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That's pretty rich putting him in the starting eleven right away
I like this kid, a Briton that can do stepovers, I love him already. I look forward to the 2014 world cup when he will win the cup for England eclipsing Pele's achievements in 1958
REDS CLARIFY ACADEMY RULES
Further to reports in today’s papers regarding the Club’s Academy programme, it would like to make the following statement:
Each year, Manchester United signs up to 30 boys aged nine for the Under 10s of its Academy in line with the rules that govern Premier League Academies.
The Club does not ordinarily discuss individuals within its academies and would not consider sanctioning media access to boys so young.
But it is important to address some issues that have arisen. The boy in question is English and resident within the allowable travelling distance of the Club, having resettled in the UK. The Club has at all times conducted itself in accordance with Academy rules.
All Academy students operate under the same conditions and the same discipline and application is expected of them.
Manchester United is proud of its history of developing talented young players and invests considerable time and resource into trying to find the best young players of the future
manutd.com
Further to reports in today’s papers regarding the Club’s Academy programme, it would like to make the following statement:
Each year, Manchester United signs up to 30 boys aged nine for the Under 10s of its Academy in line with the rules that govern Premier League Academies.
The Club does not ordinarily discuss individuals within its academies and would not consider sanctioning media access to boys so young.
But it is important to address some issues that have arisen. The boy in question is English and resident within the allowable travelling distance of the Club, having resettled in the UK. The Club has at all times conducted itself in accordance with Academy rules.
All Academy students operate under the same conditions and the same discipline and application is expected of them.
Manchester United is proud of its history of developing talented young players and invests considerable time and resource into trying to find the best young players of the future
manutd.com
Australians would weep in despair when this kid makes his debut for England
I was wondering how his creativity and flair hadn't been coached out of him and then I read he did grow up in England.
he's far to short for the Prem.
Nice one...
Next thing as someone say is to sign Wayne Rooney's sperm. I would also go so far and give trail to Cristiano Ronaldo's sperm and if it is good, then loan him to Liverpool FC. The good thing is that he would play on the wing. The bad thing is that he might learn how to steal.
Next thing as someone say is to sign Wayne Rooney's sperm. I would also go so far and give trail to Cristiano Ronaldo's sperm and if it is good, then loan him to Liverpool FC. The good thing is that he would play on the wing. The bad thing is that he might learn how to steal.
I was better than him at 9. ;-)
Where did it all go wrong?
Where did it all go wrong?
thinking you were better than him at 9
You can't say Rooney, Ronaldo, Messi and then Rhain--- that's his first name!!!!
His last name is Davis!!!! We can't go changing the rules of what we call players just because his first name sounds like a pop star
I saw the vid before this article came out and told my old man United should pick him up in a rather joking manner, funny how things materialize...