Everton Youth Teams Thread

[Ivo]

Eurosport 2 showing the full match at 9:30 pm tonight, if not there are streams available for the game live at 12 pm today.

Not according to my tv planner... You sure it's on tonight?

 

[blueloon]

Not according to my tv planner... You sure it's on tonight?

Yes, Eurosport 2HD 9 30 as he stated.

 

[Ivo]

Yes, Eurosport 2HD 9 30 as he stated.

My virgin box must be on the blink

 

[Nymzee]

Not according to my tv planner... You sure it's on tonight?

Yep.

 

[toffeejack]

Everton are in talks with Nottingham Forest over a deal for teenage midfielder Brennan Johnson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...enager-brennan-johnson/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb

we've already got one @Brennan!

Seriously though, son of david johnson, i'm 28 and i'm starting to feel really really old.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Plus we had bids rejected for Adarabioyo (CB) of City, George Hirst (ST) of Sheff Wed back in Jan and more recently Josh Bowler (RW) of QPR. All highly rated prospects.

 

[blueloon]

Plus we had bids rejected for Adarabioyo (CB) of City, George Hirst (ST) of Sheff Wed back in Jan and more recently Josh Bowler (RW) of QPR. All highly rated prospects.

I doubt if we ever bid for Adarabioyo, he was just playing hardball with City making demands for huge pay increase or he would just let his contract run out. We could never match his pay demands for a 19 year old , City blinked first and he got his huge increase. He's now at 19 set up for life, good luck to him, but I reckon there's a fair chance he won't break into City's team and he could be stuck for years on a great contract which no one else will be able to match in a transfer bid.

 

[macdog]

My virgin box must be on the blink

Beautifully phrased!

 

[macdog]

I doubt if we ever bid for Adarabioyo, he was just playing hardball with City making demands for huge pay increase or he would just let his contract run out. We could never match his pay demands for a 19 year old , City blinked first and he got his huge increase. He's now at 19 set up for life, good luck to him, but I reckon there's a fair chance he won't break into City's team and he could be stuck for years on a great contract which no one else will be able to match in a transfer bid.

As Hamlet said: 'There's the rub'.

 

[toffeejack]

I doubt if we ever bid for Adarabioyo, he was just playing hardball with City making demands for huge pay increase or he would just let his contract run out. We could never match his pay demands for a 19 year old , City blinked first and he got his huge increase. He's now at 19 set up for life, good luck to him, but I reckon there's a fair chance he won't break into City's team and he could be stuck for years on a great contract which no one else will be able to match in a transfer bid.

if the rumours of them paying an obscene amount for VVD are true, as well as buying stones with one eye to the future, they already have denayer who's of course higher rated than adarabioyo, mangala is still quite young. He aint getting many chances in the near to long future. Some footballer like to lack ambition, it's a sad state really. I always think they're going to get enough wages to set them up for life regardless of where they're at, why don't they go out and play football for their whole career.

 

[atrottel]

Some footballer like to lack ambition, it's a sad state really. I always think they're going to get enough wages to set them up for life regardless of where they're at, why don't they go out and play football for their whole career.

So they get enough money to potentially set them up for the rest of their life, a day job with a employer 95% of the fellow males at the same age can only dream about, and when they are finished for the afternoon they get invites for the top restaurants/nightclubs/bars where they are likely to come into close contact with the latest group of supermodel wannabees who have flocked to the same city.

Tough choice for a young lad.

I do agree with you, but I get the feeling we are looking at it from our present ages rather than how we were at their time of life...

In a way it is impressive that there are enough lads who do keep their hunger for the game and their heads on their shoulders.

 

[toffeejack]

So they get enough money to potentially set them up for the rest of their life, a day job with a employer 95% of the fellow males at the same age can only dream about, and when they are finished for the afternoon they get invites for the top restaurants/nightclubs/bars where they are likely to come into close contact with the latest group of supermodel wannabees who have flocked to the same city.

Tough choice for a young lad.

I do agree with you, but I get the feeling we are looking at it from our present ages rather than how we were at their time of life...

In a way it is impressive that there are enough lads who do keep their hunger for the game and their heads on their shoulders.

Yeah, well simply put, they're too young to make those decisions, hence the need for an agent, but then the agent is alerts looking for the best financial deal for themselves and client now, rather than their career. Maybe it's only the parents and family thai can truly guide them.

 

[Brisan123]

Yeah, well simply put, they're too young to make those decisions, hence the need for an agent, but then the agent is alerts looking for the best financial deal for themselves and client now, rather than their career. Maybe it's only the parents and family thai can truly guide them.

I can remember watching a programme 18/20 yrs ago on Sky I think about Chelseas acadamy.
Out of two years players only Jody Morris and John Terry made the step up
Interesting thing was Terry's first contract
I can't remember the details but it was on the lines of
We will pay you 12 grand a week
We will get you a mortgage for an apartment
We will stop mortgage out of your wages
We will pay over half your wages into a pension fund
We will pick your car and stop payments out of your wages
We will put money into a savings account that you will not have access to.
His take home pay was less than a grand a week ( I know still a lot 20 yrs ago ).
His agent agreed and Terry was like , don't want to know the details where do I sign
Matthew Harding looked the players and like was said earlier different era and players just wanted to play football and weren't that bothered about money.
Young players today are paid obscene amounts of money without ever having achieved anything in the game.
I can remember many next big things ending up plying their trade in the lower divisions for 10/15 yrs

 

[Brisan123]

My virgin box must be on the blink

You dear sir have won the internet for a week

 

[toffeejack]

I can remember watching a programme 18/20 yrs ago on Sky I think about Chelseas acadamy.
Out of two years players only Jody Morris and John Terry made the step up
Interesting thing was Terry's first contract
I can't remember the details but it was on the lines of
We will pay you 12 grand a week
We will get you a mortgage for an apartment
We will stop mortgage out of your wages
We will pay over half your wages into a pension fund
We will pick your car and stop payments out of your wages
We will put money into a savings account that you will not have access to.
His take home pay was less than a grand a week ( I know still a lot 20 yrs ago ).
His agent agreed and Terry was like , don't want to know the details where do I sign
Matthew Harding looked the players and like was said earlier different era and players just wanted to play football and weren't that bothered about money.
Young players today are paid obscene amounts of money without ever having achieved anything in the game.
I can remember many next big things ending up plying their trade in the lower divisions for 10/15 yrs

yeah i remember watching that programme too, nobody that i saw on it made the grade though.