The Academy/Development squads watch thread 2024/25

[muirinho]

Time to update the thread title I think. Let's lose the years....

Anyway the club have revealed the next batch of bright prospects moving up for inclusion in the U18s.

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2017/j ... -18-squad/

The names to start getting familiar with are :

1. Jökull Andresson
2. Adam Desbois
3. Marcel Elva-Foutaine
4. Ayominde Faniyan
5. Michenaidgelo Hansen
6. James Hillson
7. Charlie Lawrence
8. Shamar Moore
9. Roberto Nditi
10. Jack Nolan
11. Emmanuel Obamakinwa
12. Jacob Pemberton
13. Terrance Saydee
14. Khalid Simmo
15. Tommy Stevens

Tommy Stevens is Thai-British, if he becomes established here, it would be huge in Thailand.
http://footballchannel.asia/2016/06/05/post11384/
http://www.smmsport.com/m/news.php?n=201102

[Yellowcoat]

Apparently there is online commentary on Bath City internet radio tonight. A squad of 22 have been sent despite so many being in Holland. No doubt not much coverage from RFC as I suspect the media people are also abroad.

[Yellowcoat]

Bath 0 Reading 1 (Regis)

[Simon's Church]

https://twitter.com/BathCity_FC/status/887373168138125314?s=09

A few trialists in there? Not heard of obi or regis before

[Yellowcoat]

Bath 0 Reading 1 (Regis)

Apparently only 150 odd attendance. Interesting fact from their co-commentator (when he eventually switched his mike on after online prompting from me) is that apparently over the years over 40 Reading Academy players have now turned out for Bath so obviously some close links have been formed.
Half time score as earlier.

[Yellowcoat]

https://twitter.com/BathCity_FC/status/887373168138125314?s=09

A few trialists in there? Not heard of obi or regis before

Chris Regis certainly might be a trialist. Apparently an England U17 International in 2012 (ex Colchester).
Also Ogo Obi - a Nigerian (ex Watford).

[Muskrat]

Time to update the thread title I think. Let's lose the years....

Anyway the club have revealed the next batch of bright prospects moving up for inclusion in the U18s.

https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2017/j ... -18-squad/

The names to start getting familiar with are :

1. Jökull Andresson
2. Adam Desbois
3. Marcel Elva-Foutaine
4. Ayominde Faniyan
5. Michenaidgelo Hansen
6. James Hillson
7. Charlie Lawrence
8. Shamar Moore
9. Roberto Nditi
10. Jack Nolan
11. Emmanuel Obamakinwa
12. Jacob Pemberton
13. Terrance Saydee
14. Khalid Simmo
15. Tommy Stevens

Great stuff. I look forward to watching them develop into promising players before being released

[Yellowcoat]

Latest - Bath 1 (Capo) Reading 1 (Regis)

[Yellowcoat]

Bath 2 (Lucas) Reading 1 with just a couple of minutes left.
Now 3-1 after a deflected shot,

FULL TIME

[Yellowcoat]

Wealdstone 6 Reading (U23) 1 (Andresson)

[CountryRoyal]

#goldengeneration

[Sutekh]

Seems that lot from Stamford Bridge are after one our youngsters....

Hopefully both Reading and the player will tell them where to go.

http://www.thehardtackle.com/news/2017/ ... endlebury/

[maffff]

https://twitter.com/BathCity_FC/status/887373168138125314?s=09

A few trialists in there? Not heard of obi or regis before

Chris Regis certainly might be a trialist. Apparently an England U17 International in 2012 (ex Colchester).
Also Ogo Obi - a Nigerian (ex Watford).

and Jesse Arizie - ex Bury.

Also - Jokull Andresson (GK) listed above is Axel's younger brother. They joined at the same time.

[tidus_mi2]

Seems that lot from Stamford Bridge are after one our youngsters....

Hopefully both Reading and the player will tell them where to go.

http://www.thehardtackle.com/news/2017/ ... endlebury/

There should be enough ammunition there to fend off interest from Chelsea, as weird as it is to say that:

1) While Chelsea have better facilities, Reading's are also good and there is clear ambition within the club to further to improve.

2) Chelsea have a TERRIBLE current record of bringing youth into the first team, players like Chalobah and Ake and probably others I'm forgetting could easily have been part of the squad but have either been shipped out on loan or sold.

3) Reading on the other hand have a better record for bringing through youth players with two being current regulars in the first team, obviously at a lower level but that would come back to the Dele Alli argument of players staying where they are and getting regular first team football, rather than moving to the bigger club.

[Hound]

swap for Baker loan maybe?

but agree, the lad would be better off staying here

[Snowflake Royal]

I guess the most important question is not whether you forge a career at Chelsea, but whether your career kicks off better than at Reading.

Do more Chelsea graduates make it in the Championship or PL and sooner than Reading's.

No point going there with ambitions of getting into their first team, but maybe for a better route to the PL / upper championship.

[double d]

I guess the most important question is not whether you forge a career at Chelsea, but whether your career kicks off better than at Reading.

Do more Chelsea graduates make it in the Championship or PL and sooner than Reading's.

No point going there with ambitions of getting into their first team, but maybe for a better route to the PL / upper championship.

I think the answer to that is definitely yes. They may not make it at Chelsea (i may be incredibly wrong but from memory the last Chelsea academy grad to make it on their team with a sustained run is Terry I think?).

Musonda looked decent yesterday, ake and chalobah, jamal blackman, kyle scott and solanke and a few others have been around the first team but i think they are now playing prem or championship football elsewhere at a quicker level then they would have done at reading.

I like what arsenal are doing. 3 18 year olds on the bench yesterday. Seems like they have alot of good young talent.

[tidus_mi2]

If Chelsea poach all the best talent, is that indicative of their youth academy producing players of at least Championship quality or of the players themselves just fulfilling their potential?

[CountryRoyal]

U23s lost 4-0 away at Southampton in PL2.

I thought we got relegated?

EDIT: Nvm, didn't realise Southampton also came down.

[CrowthorneRoyal]

I went down there last night. It was pretty poor generally.

George Legg had no chance to save the goals and made a few good saves when coming way out of his area as his defenders left him high and dry.

Our right back (not sure of his name but had what looked like really dodgy blonde highlights) was really weak on the ball.

After being impressed with Axel Andresen in the Gillingham game I was quite disappointed by him last night. For his size, he got muscled off the ball by the smallest player on the pitch.

Josh barret....... he ran alot but kept wanting to take on too many players and was incredibly slow at releasing the ball.

Ryan East did pretty well over all even if he did miss the easiest of chances.

Alex Mccarthy was in goal for Southampton - Didnt really have much to do and his kicking was pretty wayward.

The stadium felt smaller than the Mad Stad even though it has an extra 8k capacity

This might be old news that I missed, but it appears that Martin Kuhl isnt in charge of the U23s anymore.