Everton Youth Teams Thread


Eggs said:
…like to know more about his physicality etc. Doesn’t look the tallest on that pic, maybe a leftie. We got Alex Young from Hearts.
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Interesting thread here mate.

Apparently Hess kicked on the last few months and developed physically, but hasn’t really stood out at his level at the Jambos.

Interesting points about Brexit from the Hearts fans here - hadn’t considered the home grower aspect.
 
little bit more info on him from a Hearts supporter;

An interesting one as I suspect if you had asked any regular spectator at Hearts u16/u18, Dodds would not have been in any top five.
The boy has come on leaps and bounds in past 2-3 months. I think his best attribute is you get the feeling he just loves to defend. Very good aerially at both ends of the park.
I suspect the quick turnaround in performances has somewhat caught everyone out. Not sure Dodds made his B Team debut when some others from that age group have got minutes, albeit due to injuries in specific positions

So this would definitely seem to be a punt to fill some boots for the u18s, as opposed to a “prodigy” stepping up directly into the u21s. Sounds like he wasn’t even first choice of CB behind two others (Osborne, who is a Scotland youth intl, and not sure of the other) in his age group.
I know it’s not really that much of an indicator at that age, but curious to see if “good aerially” is due to height or his vertical.
 
There’s very little info on John Dodds , no Scottish youth appearances that I can find , which is quite unusual, it’s not a high bar in Scotland if you’ve got talent and are with a SPL club. I doubt if we’ve paid much money for him, even £100k can get you a fully grown SPL player at the lower levels.
 

mightymoyes said:
Game against utd u21s has now moved to Fri night at 7pm.
Not currently in the mutv listings unfortunately
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blueloon said:
There’s very little info on John Dodds , no Scottish youth appearances that I can find , which is quite unusual, it’s not a high bar in Scotland if you’ve got talent and are with a SPL club. I doubt if we’ve paid much money for him, even £100k can get you a fully grown SPL player at the lower levels.
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Someone posted, or i saw somewhere (a link?) that he had a growth spurt and has been a different player for the past 3 months. Apparently very defensive minded as opposed to anything else mentioned.
 
Malik Olayiwola has been away with England u16 the past week both starting games and coming off the bench. So far the brightest prospect in our u16s , hopefully under TFG we can retain and develop the likes of him and Nsangou .Olayiwola ticks all the boxes for the Guardian’s Next Generation player come October …..unless we somehow sign someone more exciting!
 

blueloon said:
Malik Olayiwola has been away with England u16 the past week both starting games and coming off the bench. So far the brightest prospect in our u16s , hopefully under TFG we can retain and develop the likes of him and Nsangou .Olayiwola ticks all the boxes for the Guardian’s Next Generation player come October …..unless we somehow sign someone more exciting!
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Olayiwola a CM & Nsangou an AM ?
 
Zatara said:
Olayiwola a CM & Nsangou an AM ?
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It’s the New Everton mate , at 16 &15 they’re free spirits who could play anywhere, but roughly right.
Olayiwola has often been 6/8 when we’ve played him, although curiously he continues to have the “ 4” shirt in England squads despite , I believe , never playing in defence for them. He actually replaced a forward when he came off the bench in a recent England friendly, but I don’t believe that meant anything positionally. Nsangou has the right build, pace and scoring ability to play further forward, it’ll be interesting to see if he’s a 10 , 9 or whatever . Very early days yet for both of course.
 

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