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Offline OCD

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #825 on: February 08, 2022, 02:49:15 PM »
Re: the chelsea model. An article in today's Athletic.

"The Chelsea “model” is certainly one that Villa have looked closely at and hope to replicate on a smaller scale. They sold academy players Tammy Abraham and Fikayo Tomori over the summer for £60 million and reinvested that money towards their top summer signing, Romelu Lukaku. (That said, Lukaku was returning to Stamford Bridge after being let go seven years earlier.)

Chelsea’s plan, however, is pretty clear: stack their squad high and continue to send out as many players as possible on loan. Temporary moves to the Championship for Mason Mount and Reece James have helped them develop into first-team players and England internationals.

Villa hope similar success stories will follow. If not, raising funds by moving on players for a profit is the best alternative."

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #826 on: February 08, 2022, 06:35:00 PM »
Think we should put a bid in for 15 year old Palmeiras player Endrick. Looks a bit good

He’s the next big thing isn’t he?

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #827 on: February 08, 2022, 07:37:12 PM »
Think we should put a bid in for 15 year old Palmeiras player Endrick. Looks a bit good

Mentioned him last week when I heard Tim Vickery's verdict on him.

Need the Academy with Dougie and Phil to get working on this kid. https://twitter.com/Betfred/status/1488270872385245185

I'll be fuming if we don't sign him in summer 2024 as I think he'll be even better than Jeff.

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #828 on: February 08, 2022, 09:38:44 PM »
Think we should put a bid in for 15 year old Palmeiras player Endrick. Looks a bit good

He’s the next big thing isn’t he?

I remember a 10 year-old called Kane Jackson (?) getting a feature spread in either Match! or Shoot! circa 1993, being touted as the best kid player in the world.

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #829 on: February 08, 2022, 09:40:17 PM »
I used to teach someone called Kane Jackson. Not that one, though.

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #830 on: February 09, 2022, 11:39:57 AM »

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #831 on: February 09, 2022, 11:45:58 AM »
Monitoring the reviews that the loanees are getting my 'all academy' team looks stronger every week at the moment. My head says 'stay cool' but my heart says 'golden generation!'

Sinisalo
Kesler-Hayden Feeney Bogarde Chrisene
Iroegbunam
Ramsey Chukwuemeka
Philogene-Bidace Davis Archer

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #832 on: February 09, 2022, 02:32:55 PM »
I’d get rid of Davis and add Ramsey minor with Archer as main striker.

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #833 on: February 09, 2022, 02:44:08 PM »
What happened to the Revan brothers? I liked the look of both of them.

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #834 on: February 10, 2022, 09:37:42 PM »
What happened to the Revan brothers? I liked the look of both of them.
Dom Revan is back at Villa after getting injured on loan at Northampton. Seb is on loan at Hereford.

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #835 on: February 11, 2022, 02:54:39 AM »
I wonder why Dom Revan isn't playing, then?

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #836 on: February 21, 2022, 09:03:48 PM »
U23's won 2-0 tonight but Tim Iroegbunam got sent off for two yellows, the second five minutes into stoppage time!

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #837 on: February 21, 2022, 09:13:54 PM »
I watched it. Kerr Smith looked pretty impressive.

Offline dcdavecollett

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #838 on: February 22, 2022, 01:10:31 AM »
Watched it, too.

Some very good performances in there, Tim, Chuk and Brad all had good games. Impressed with the two centre-backs, and Taylor Jay-Hart and O'Reilly did lots of good things. Chrisene went off at half-time but wasn't obviously injured.

The ref was unbelievably bad!! He allowed everything to go for the first forty minutes, shirt-pulls and kicking the ball away at dead-balls, then suddenly decided that he was, in fact, going to book players for these offences. One of their players, Gibbs, I think, had already been booked when he hacked down Chuk with the ball nowhere near. Incredibly, no second yellow was produced -****!

Norwich, a 'big' side, are well up the league and had their moments but we defended well despite some unusually dodgy handling from Sinisalo which reminded me of the dark days of Nyland.

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Re: Reserves and Academy 2021/22
« Reply #839 on: February 22, 2022, 09:52:41 AM »
Highlights of the two goals from last night’s game

https://twitter.com/avfcofficial/status/1496057395214225415?s=21

 


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