Future XI

Mogwai · October 13, 2015

SpurtingLesbian said:
it would be perhaps more interesting to find peoples projected future squads from similar threads 4-5 years ago and see how they compare to our current squad.
I bet none of them come anywhere near.

I am pretty sure I got the Galloway and Funes Mori shouts correct

Steve Wigan · October 13, 2015

Nymzee said:
I actually forgot Dowell somehow but yeh he should definitely be around the set up. Positions that worry me are keeper, left wing, right-back and striker the most. Not sure how much is in the links for Embolo/El Ghazi/Yarmz but hopefully by next summer we'll have reduced the squads age down by binning Howard, McGeady, Hibbert etc. but it's clearly very crucial we recruit/promote soon to replace these positions or the squad will be very thin and that's even before we consider selling a Stones.

Commentator last night mentioned that Everton youth player Smith(?) was 'training with the full England squad this week', so presumably we have yet another genius coming through. I fully expect us to win everything from 2018 onwards forever and Martinez to get a knighthood...or at least a Papal knighthood and the freedom of Walton.

Michaelcoyb · October 13, 2015

This stinks of the Fifa Generation (n)

Nymzee · October 13, 2015

Love how if you want to try discuss the future of our squad all the anti-FIFA melts come out of hiding *yawn*

Vaughan · October 13, 2015

SpurtingLesbian said:
it would be perhaps more interesting to find peoples projected future squads from similar threads 4-5 years ago and see how they compare to our current squad.
I bet none of them come anywhere near.

rodwell and gosling cm probably would have been a consistent shout

Woolly Blue · October 13, 2015

Michaelcoyb said:
This stinks of the Fifa Generation

Not really, it's more about looking at the talent which is on the fringes of the first team squad or coming through the academy and making a guess as to who'll become first team regulars.

It is just a guess like, but it builds on the information in the other youth related threads and takes it a step further. All these kids are on our books, it's not as though someone's suggesting shelling out 20 million on a 16 year old from Paraguay with a fancy name.

TL;DR ?

Don't like the subject ? Read another thread

Goat · October 13, 2015

Woolly Blue said:
it's not as though someone's suggesting shelling out 20 million on a 16 year old from Paraguay with a fancy name.

It is now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Díaz_(Paraguayan_footballer)

SpurtingLesbian · October 13, 2015

Vaughan said:
rodwell and gosling cm probably would have been a consistent shout

I did find this from 2010, I won't embarrass it's poster by naming him as I imagine he'd be no different to everyone else.

Teams are lucky to have one player a season come through the ranks, top clubs work on two or three,
Look at our youth coming through,
england youth teams = Barkley, Garbutt and Bidwell, Rodwell and Baxter.
rep ireland youth teams/senior= Duffy and Coleman.
Johan Hammer swiss u16.
Shkodran Mustafi a german youth international.
after we get him a permit Aras Abdulayev senior international level even at sixteen.
Bob Schepers (fingers crossed) dutch youth international.
Savic(kid on trail at the mo fingers crossed on that one too)swiss u17 striker.
Nathen Graig welsh U21.
And they are just the international players at the academy, nsiala and hallam hope both seeming to impress a lot of people.
There is Forshaw, Wallace and Hope Akpan all showing promise.
We are getting a great reputation all over Europe for the quality of our academy, and the influx of young talent from across the chanel is there to see.
Does our future not look great or am I just looking through rose tinted specks.

Where are they all now?

I think it shows projecting our youth teams into a future side is probably more than a little floored.

Nymzee · October 13, 2015

SpurtingLesbian said:
I did find this from 2010, I won't embarrass it's poster by naming him as I imagine he'd be no different to everyone else.

Where are they all now?

I think it shows projecting our youth teams into a future side is probably more than a little floored.

Flawed indeed but from the quoted 2010 post it doesn't half show you just how wrong we can be about the promise youth players show. We're all certain the Walsh's, Ledson's, Evan's of their generation will make it but that post proves we shouldn't always be so sure. Interesting.

Woolly Blue · October 13, 2015

MoutsGoat said:
It is now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Díaz_(Paraguayan_footballer)

It was either going to be Bungle, BMG or yourself who took up the challenge. Well done, that's the lad I was thinking of.

Aar_the_Toffees · October 13, 2015

Mogwai said:
SK: Rulli

WBR: Stones
CB: Kongolo
CB: Giminez
WBL: Silva

DLP: Tielemans
DM: McGeady
AP: Odegaard

IF: Correa
CF: Embolo
IF: Bruma

Turn off FIFA mate.

Dan Tanner · October 13, 2015

SpurtingLesbian said:
I did find this from 2010, I won't embarrass it's poster by naming him as I imagine he'd be no different to everyone else.

Where are they all now?

I think it shows projecting our youth teams into a future side is probably more than a little floored.

2 full England and eire internationals and a german and world cup winner in Mustafi. Garbutt still around with a fair bit of potential in him, so not to bad.

Remember thinking that Akpan, Hallam and wallace were gonna make it oh well hindsights a wonderful thing.....