Ledson to leave Everton?

[DanEFC92]

Disappointing. Couldn't have been a loan move, no?

Koeman out.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Good luck to the lad, illustrates the amount of quality we have in our youth team if a player like Ledson isn't good enough.

I think he'll make it as a footballer but may end up around championship level.

 

[Bungle]

Ok I want those who were claiming he was gonna be Everton captain for ten years only last season to come on here and apologise at once.

You can always count on our resident transfer guru to be on the ball

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/ryan-ledson.61578/page-63#post-3208704

 

[chicoazul]

You can always count on our resident transfer guru to be on the ball

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/ryan-ledson.61578/page-63#post-3208704

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@jinkyali explain oneself plz.

 

[sageyefc]

Davies just looks so much better than him.


Looks cooler aswell

 

[Space Cowboy]

This would be a mistake

Stick a buyback clause in there at least

@FTY for sporting director

 

[Lee Smith]

I for one will wish him the best and hold fond memories of his time at the club

 

[Space Cowboy]

I was having the conversation with zat a while ago now and he was spouting that we should promote all these young players and sign united reserves etc

It is a sad thing that the gap between reserve / academy football is so big compared to the premier league. If we were a lower league team i would imagine we would have a much bigger result of players making the step up. As it happens, you can't expect a good amount of 18 and 19 year olds to be able to move from playing their peers and learning the game to playing against some of the best in the world. imagine throwing a 18 year old defender against Ibrahimovic? Or messi? or asking a young striker who isn't suddenly the best thing ever to play against experience?

what i do appeciate from the club however is the fact we are sending these young players off to have careers which is fantastic to see. They may drop a division or 2 when they start off but no arguments we are serving them well.

I think most of the time the gap is in attitude not talent, hence Phil Nevile

 

[Eggs]

....most importantly, this lad was a natural leader in his own age group. He is talented but leadership was perhaps his most important attribute for those of us who watched him, particularly at international level. I fear the transition to open age football undermined that key attribute, all of a sudden he was playing with professionals with more experience than him.

 

[Zaschrona]

I don't understand and can't believe we are just letting him go. I could understand the transfer if there is a buy-back clause, but no mentions anywhere... I just feel this is going to be another situation like Mustafi. Cheaply letting go a young player that wants to play, getting almost nothing... and then we will meet him in a great club in a few years. And it is not like Mustafi is the only player like that. Adam Forshaw is playing for Middlesbrough in their starting line-up and is much better player than Darron Gibson. And Ledson will meet another our former youngster in Oxford. It is John Lundstram, just 22, who is their captain and helped them to promote to Championship. Pure idiocy not giving these players a buy-back clause...

 

[Goat]

As I keep saying, our youth players arent as good as people think.

 

[sageyefc]

We're well stocked with promising midfielders through out our youth set up. He's simply not looked like living up to the hype past the under 18s.


If he ever does live up to it we can always just buy him back

 

[Lanolin]

....most importantly, this lad was a natural leader in his own age group. He is talented but leadership was perhaps his most important attribute for those of us who watched him, particularly at international level. I fear the transition to open age football undermined that key attribute, all of a sudden he was playing with professionals with more experience than him.

Totally agree with that. I think it's amazing how many people seem to think that being quality at youth level translates in any way to making it at the top level. He had a similar youth career to Peter Clarke, anyone think we missed a trick by not playing the former Blackpool, Bury and Southend man instead of Jagielka, Lescott, Distin etc?

 

[waggy27]

Evertn have been pretty good in terms of evaluating the younger players in recent years, and there haven't been many cases (Moyes allowing Mustafi to leave being a notable exception) where a young player has gone on to make the club regret letting them go. At the same time there have been many hyped academy graduates such as Kissock, Baxter, Hope and Green who have failed to fulfil the promise shown at younger age groups.

All clubs scout extensively at reserve level and had Ledson shown he was still Premier League potential, with respect to Oxford there would have been higher level clubs showing interest in him.

 

[zzr45]

And Ledson will meet another our former youngster in Oxford. It is John Lundstram, just 22, who is their captain and helped them to promote to Championship. Pure idiocy not giving these players a buy-back clause...

That'll be Oxford that play in league one? Arguably Mustafi is one that'll be a head scratcher for years to come - there's always one player out of 100 that will bite you on the bum. But, surely if Ledson was the world beater everyone claims it wouldn't of been a League One team that signed him?