Youth transfers and rumours thread.

KM

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Figure that Misc thread can be made for tournament and stuff and this can be used for transfer rumours.

Confirmed signings so far(well by reliable journalists atleast)

U18s
1) Dante Plunkett - Left Back
2) Chido Obi - Striker
3) Lusale - Left wing
4) James Overy - Right back

U16s
1) Camron Mpofu - Striker

U15s
1) Silva Mexes
 
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Stobzilla said:
I have more chance plaiting piss than pronouncing his name correctly so do not want.
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I’d love to hear Crerand’s effort if he was still doing MUTV.

Watched a couple of Austria’s games, OA was a tough player to defend against. Strong, quick and aggressive. Good on the ball too.
 
lysglimt said:
According to a source online - we are interested in signing 17 year old Oghenetejiri Adejenughure who plays for RB Salzburg. I don't know if he is any good - but I would love for us to sign him, simply so I can hear our MUTV-commentators try to pronounce that name :)
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That’d be a perfect password too.
 
Stobzilla said:
I have more chance plaiting piss than pronouncing his name correctly so do not want.
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We will let you call him "Oghee", as long as he is our next big star
 
Baylee Dipepa has removed the Port Vale tag from his instagram bio… :eek: Port Vale and Man City are the only clubs he follows on ig.
 
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How long has be following man city, if it is not recent then that does not indicate much other than him leaving port vale.
 
https://x.com/RisingBallers_/status/1807014016612507792?t=EOrJmbv7tPbkeMGGyXRhAQ&s=19

Not sure how reliable this is

Manchester United are pushing to sign 16-year-old attacking midfielder Yahya Idrissi-Regragui from Chelsea

He’s one of the biggest prospects coming out of Cobham right now…already represented his club and country (Morocco) at U18s level

Chelsea are trying to convince him to stay and tie him down to a new long-term contract ✍️

Do you think academy players at Chelsea will leave more regularly with the amount of signings they’re making?
 
KM said:
https://x.com/RisingBallers_/status/1807014016612507792?t=EOrJmbv7tPbkeMGGyXRhAQ&s=19

Not sure how reliable this is

Manchester United are pushing to sign 16-year-old attacking midfielder Yahya Idrissi-Regragui from Chelsea

He’s one of the biggest prospects coming out of Cobham right now…already represented his club and country (Morocco) at U18s level

Chelsea are trying to convince him to stay and tie him down to a new long-term contract ✍

Do you think academy players at Chelsea will leave more regularly with the amount of signings they’re making?
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If they’re only being used to inflate the books then I don’t know why they’d stick around at Chelsea tbh, by 16 you’ve already got the majority of the football education they’re going to offer you, better to then move to a club you have a chance of breaking through at.
 
KM said:
https://x.com/RisingBallers_/status/1807014016612507792?t=EOrJmbv7tPbkeMGGyXRhAQ&s=19

Not sure how reliable this is

Manchester United are pushing to sign 16-year-old attacking midfielder Yahya Idrissi-Regragui from Chelsea

He’s one of the biggest prospects coming out of Cobham right now…already represented his club and country (Morocco) at U18s level

Chelsea are trying to convince him to stay and tie him down to a new long-term contract ✍

Do you think academy players at Chelsea will leave more regularly with the amount of signings they’re making?
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Christensen, Guehi, Mount, James, Hudson-Odoy, Gallagher etc - as long as Chelsea continues to be successful in producing first-team players - I doubt that is the case. A young player can only look at the number of players Chelsea have produced - and know that their chance of succeeding is bigger here than with most other clubs. If this were to change - it would probably be more tempting for the youngsters to leave. But right now - nah - I don't think so
 
After Overy signing we are probably only like 2 players short for that age group (1 midfielder + 1 forward). Regragui is decent. He does remind me a bit of Mather from the little I have seen of him.
 
khoazany said:
After Overy signing we are probably only like 2 players short for that age group (1 midfielder + 1 forward). Regragui is decent. He does remind me a bit of Mather from the little I have seen of him.
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I think Devaney, Jack Fletcher, Tyler Fletcher, Fitzgerald, Baumann, Thwaites, Bailey & Ibragimov is enough for the midfield positions. Ibragimov can play several positions but that's where he has played whenever he's featured for the U18s.

And then there’s even the chance of JJ Gabriel and/or the Nkoto brothers getting a game or two.

The left wing options are a bit limited, I agree. Same with the striker position, unless the club consider Bradbury to be ready for the step up. Ibragimov can stunt in both of those positions too fortunately.
 
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top1whoisman said:
I think Devaney, Jack Fletcher, Tyler Fletcher, Fitzgerald, Baumann, Thwaites & Ibragimov is enough for the midfield positions. Ibragimov can play several positions but that's where he has played whenever he's featured for the U18s.

And then there’s even the chance of JJ Gabriel and/or the Nkoto brothers getting a game or two.

The left wing options are a bit limited, I agree. Same with the striker position, unless the club consider Bradbury to be ready for the step up. Ibragimov can stunt in both of those positions too fortunately.
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I would also add Moorehoue to the list of midfielders, good player, hampered by injuries last season.
 
Since INEOS seem to want to use Nice as a feeder to United, it’s worth seeing if they sign any prospects.
 
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That's good. It's been rumoured for a while.

He's 15, isn't he? So he'll be playing for the U16's next season. Does that increase the likelihood of Louie Bradbury stepping up to the U18's more? Or was it just a case of us needing another striker at U16 level (I think a few left at the end of last season?)
 
Bertie Wooster said:
That's good. It's been rumoured for a while.

He's 15, isn't he? So he'll be playing for the U16's next season. Does that increase the likelihood of Louie Bradbury stepping up to the U18's more? Or was it just a case of us needing another striker at U16 level (I think a few left at the end of last season?)
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14, he's an U15. That doesn't rule out him playing for the U16s of course.
 
Manchester United are close to signing winger Samuel Lusale from Crystal Palace.

Lusale, 16, played in Slovakia's three group games at the Under-17 European Championship in May and was in Palace's FA Youth Cup squad last season.

According to Samuel Luckhurst
 
We have signed some talents over the years but I was reading a article on The Athletic yesterday, basically we could have had Sesko, Musiala, Neto and a few others for really cheap if we had listened to our scouts.

Edit: the article also mentioned that we could have had Hannibal for next to nothing the year before instead of paying £10m for him. And a few of these players that I have mentioned had trials with us. Apparently we offered £1.1m for Sesko, then increased it to £1.2m a week later, when the selling team was asking for £2m.

https://pastebin.com/embed_js/aNg2t2eZ
 
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Varun1 said:
We have signed some talents over the years but I was reading a article on The Athletic yesterday, basically we could have had Sesko, Musiala, Neto and a few others for really cheap if we had listened to our scouts.
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And that goes for every single club at every level. There are 50-100 clubs looking for big talents - every club will miss out on big talents. Ferguson wrote in his biography that we missed out on a 23 year old John Barnes - because the scout who reported back to him was insecure if he was good enough. 4 years later - Barnes had scored about 80 goals and added a lot of assists in 170 matches as a left winger.

I am sure we get hundreds of recommendations from scouts - and when players are 14-15-16 years old - it can be hard to pick which players will be the best because players develop differently. And as the Barnes-story proves - scouts make mistakes just like everyone else
 
lysglimt said:
And that goes for every single club at every level. There are 50-100 clubs looking for big talents - every club will miss out on big talents. Ferguson wrote in his biography that we missed out on a 23 year old John Barnes - because the scout who reported back to him was insecure if he was good enough. 4 years later - Barnes had scored about 80 goals and added a lot of assists in 170 matches as a left winger.

I am sure we get hundreds of recommendations from scouts - and when players are 14-15-16 years old - it can be hard to pick which players will be the best because players develop differently. And as the Barnes-story proves - scouts make mistakes just like everyone else
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Agree, am sure the opposite also happens, i.e., scouts would have recommended players that didn't reach 1st team level.
 
Varun1 said:
We have signed some talents over the years but I was reading a article on The Athletic yesterday, basically we could have had Sesko, Musiala, Neto and a few others for really cheap if we had listened to our scouts.

Edit: the article also mentioned that we could have had Hannibal for next to nothing the year before instead of paying £10m for him. And a few of these players that I have mentioned had trials with us. Apparently we offered £1.1m for Sesko, then increased it to £1.2m a week later, when the selling team was asking for £2m.

https://pastebin.com/embed_js/aNg2t2eZ
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The bit about Hannibal is wrong, it would've been illegal to sign him the year before as he hadn't turned 16 yet.
 
lysglimt said:
And that goes for every single club at every level. There are 50-100 clubs looking for big talents - every club will miss out on big talents. Ferguson wrote in his biography that we missed out on a 23 year old John Barnes - because the scout who reported back to him was insecure if he was good enough. 4 years later - Barnes had scored about 80 goals and added a lot of assists in 170 matches as a left winger.

I am sure we get hundreds of recommendations from scouts - and when players are 14-15-16 years old - it can be hard to pick which players will be the best because players develop differently. And as the Barnes-story proves - scouts make mistakes just like everyone else
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Good post.

There's no question that working under the Glazer ownership has been a disadvantage compared to some of our rivals who have well funded youth development programmes. But at the end of the day, it's about developing the youth system to a very high level and they've done that if you compare it to most of the non investment fund clubs (Chelsea) or even the nation state backed ones like City. The building blocks are absolutely in place at academy level to consolidate things further with a good level of funding. The foundations are absolutely strong.
 
The only part of that article that should worry you is the behavior of our negotiator in the Stefan Bajetic deal. He's no longer at the club though, so who cares. It's good we covet players that turn out good, you can't have 100% hit rate, that's just impossible.
 
lysglimt said:
And that goes for every single club at every level. There are 50-100 clubs looking for big talents - every club will miss out on big talents. Ferguson wrote in his biography that we missed out on a 23 year old John Barnes - because the scout who reported back to him was insecure if he was good enough. 4 years later - Barnes had scored about 80 goals and added a lot of assists in 170 matches as a left winger.

I am sure we get hundreds of recommendations from scouts - and when players are 14-15-16 years old - it can be hard to pick which players will be the best because players develop differently. And as the Barnes-story proves - scouts make mistakes just like everyone else
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Your point is a good one and it depends how you define scouting. However, I'm not sure that missing out on John Barnes was a scouting issue. He already had over 200 first team games behind him. Everyone in the league knew how good he was and when he was available for transfer it was a managerial decision not to put in a bid. `

I would say that's down to Ferguson not the scouting system.
 
Probably a smart decision from Dipepa. So that’s him and Tyjon staying put.

 
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