James Bree (Signed for Luton Town)

[KevinGage]

Technical skills are massively undertrained in English football in general, look how many players are in the premier league who can't trap a ball properly, that's just not good enough but we still prioritise pace and strength over everything else at youth levels so players with those get away with far too much, it's why someone like Gabby was able to come through and get so many appearances at the highest level despite huge technical flaws to his game which should've been corrected as a schoolboy.

Spoke to someone on the way back from Hamburg many moons ago who was at one of Gabby's local clubs (might have been Great Barr Falcons).  He said Gabby got into the game late (14ish) and Villa took him on despite him barely even being able to trap a ball at that point. Clubs will overlook a lot if there is raw pace. 

[BOB MANSFIELD]

Capitalization overkill and wittering on about Rangers in every second post. If BOB confesses to being a U2 fan he might just be the most popular poster we've ever had.

....not going to bite............

[Villafirst]

Bree has a badly swollen knee! The curse of the RB strikes again. Which means Hutton is still first choice! Prefer to see Bacuna instead for now...

[olaftab]

This lad had a terrible game today. Not sure if he will make it.

[SoccerHQ]

Make it at what? He's already made it as a championship footballer.

Not every young English player is going to play for the national team or be the best player in his position of his generation despite the hype.

In any case Bree has hardly played for us.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

He looks a poor player, no pace and no bottle

He'll fit right in

[Drummond]

A 19 year old, with less than 10 appearances, who had been courted by lots of top side sides, is now never going to make it.

Bloody hell, I know today was shit but really?

[PaulWinch again]

Bloody hell leaping to judgement a bit quick perhaps.

[taylorsworkrate]

He was poor today, but being on the same side of the pitch as Elmohamedy for 60 minutes and the same half of the defence as Chester are mitigating factors.

[wittonwarrior]

completely out of his depth  today, really poor.

[PaulWinch again]

19 years old in a side that has no coherent plan. Shocking that he might struggle...

[wittonwarrior]

19 years old in a side that has no coherent plan. Shocking that he might struggle...

Your right of course however the fact remains he got bullied  out there yesterday and that itself is a worry.

[VinnieChase84]

De Laet should be our number 1 right back with bree challenging.

[PaulWinch again]

19 years old in a side that has no coherent plan. Shocking that he might struggle...

Your right of course however the fact remains he got bullied  out there yesterday and that itself is a worry.

I think it says more about the lack of support around him. 19 year old players tend to have games like that. I think he has bundles of talent and could be an absolute star. It may not be with us if Bruce continues as is though.

[PaulWinch again]

Resurrecting an old thread, on the back of another thread. Where the hell is he? Looked a really promising player to me and if we're looking at building a side for the long-term he should be involved.