Everton Youth Teams Thread


EFC_FRANCIS said:
Was a very open secret Rio Ngumoha got tapped up but instead of Chelsea complaining to the FA they brought in other measures instead. Pretty telling that the only team to ever get done for it (us) was because of a scorned family/player and not a club.

In general everyone benefits from tapping up
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Hmm, not sure I agree with your last sentence of everyone benefiting. Certainly the player, agent and receiving club do, but to me the system is skewed in favour of the bigger , more hard nosed clubs who can go in tap up a player from a smaller club , make a low ball offer and if not accepted let it go to a Tribunal and likely pay less. Then sell on for a bigger profit a few years later, encouraging them to keep the “ tapping up cycle” going . Mentioning no club names there of course.
 
blueloon said:
A few of our u15s have been called up to England Emerging Talent Camps , Francis Boggan and Will Apter who’s the brother of Matty Apter who left us for Cardiff and Rob Apter who’s now at Charlton. I think Josh Chigwada is also at another Camp. Boggan and Chigwada have been with our u17s to the Bermuda and Geneva tournaments.
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I wonder if Francis Boggan is the younger brother of Joe, who is at Blackburn now. And could both be son's of a Jon Boggan who was at Liverpool as a lad, and quite highly rated in the mid/late 90's. Gerrard's best mate I think.

There is an older Chigwada who was at City, signed by West Ham last summer.

I know Jake Doughty, who is doing well in the under 16s, is the son of Matty who coaches in the academy and was a good pro in the lower leagues. Left back. Think Kevin Ratcliffe gave him his debut at Chester.
 
blueloon said:
Hmm, not sure I agree with your last sentence of everyone benefiting. Certainly the player, agent and receiving club do, but to me the system is skewed in favour of the bigger , more hard nosed clubs who can go in tap up a player from a smaller club , make a low ball offer and if not accepted let it go to a Tribunal and likely pay less. Then sell on for a bigger profit a few years later, encouraging them to keep the “ tapping up cycle” going . Mentioning no club names there of course.
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Maybe not everyone all the way down the pyramid but certainly benefits us/Premier league teams which is why no club ever actually formally complains. We took Nsangou off Blackburn and Small off WBA. All in all we will have probably tapped up well more players than we've had taken off us
 
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Chig playing up a year or two for England as well.
 



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