FA Youth Cup 2014/15 Thread

[blue city199]

The thing with skillful players like Barker is that they stand out hugely in youth teams but so often they are nowhere near making the step up to the first team. Not saying barker won't make it but he needs to improvement dramatically before he does.


Granted i've only seen him in these 2 final games but i'm not seeing the Solanke hype either, he'll end up in the championship at best. Just doesn't seem to standout in any department. Da Silva is the only one from their academy i can see gettting near their first team anytime soon.

To me when there is a real special player at youth level, you just know it. I get that vibe from Kelechi although it's still early. And I got that vibe from Leroy Sane for Schalke against City in the UEFA Youth League and he's since gone on to score against Real Madrid and Wolfsburg for Schalke's first team. I don't really get that feeling from Barker... doesn't mean they won't end up being special but they will have to develop a lot.

I know what you mean. Sane carried Schalke when we dominated the game. We couldn't get near him. Had barker or any of the city lads done that tonight you'd say they were ready for first team stardom but they didn't. Would add that these boys are young... Give them another two or three years in EDS and maybe they will do just that and make an impact. Kane didn't set the world on fire but his impact for spuds has been phenomenal. Some have it early, others take time. Promising signs and the futures only ggoing to get brighter.

what skillfull players like barker need is a top coach who needs to push him get the best out of him and knows how to do that .
what i mean is tranny early in his career at manu and hazard at lille were players who got easily frustrated when things were going well and barker showed some of that today .
barker surely has the skills but nedes a coach to teach him when he to come inside and when to stay wide . barker himself has to improve his attitude everything is not going to be handed down on the plate

overall barker , celina , angelino, maffeo ,Adarabioyo (c), Humphreys are they ones of the players that played today who
have a chance to make to the first team.

 

[blue city199]

Not particulaly impressed with Solanke, given all the hype he gets. He's obviously a great finisher and a big strong lad, but his general play looks Cameron Jerome-esque. If he can't just bully people it doesn't look like he's got much else. Nothing wrong with being a great poacher though

which game were u warching mate . he general play was superb very much like costa or drogba's

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

Adarabioyo was brilliant and our standout player. Yes he's athletic but his reading of the game impressed me most.

I thought the whole back line applied themselves well and it was a shame the midfield didn't really offer anything in front of them.

Barker, Celina and Nemane were all pretty poor tonight. Celina was particularly frustrating with his schoolboy concentration on the post and dallying on the ball in dangerous positions.

I think Iheanacho might've had a bigger impact had the midfield controlled the game better.

Overall a good effort against an excellent team. I think Musonda, Boga and Dasilva were their best players.

 

[blue city199]

its scary how much better are than us. I don't know about a lovely training ground. We should poach chelseas youth coaches

+1
every one is saying how big the chelsea players were but what i say was both teams play technically superb players( not impressed with kean bryan though ) but

chelsea were tactically better than us and were well drilled and that is the reason that they won

 

[Ray78]

Funny you should mention Chelsea's coaches they have been on their books as players at various stages.

 

[sam-caddick]

MCFCReserves&Academy @MCFC_EDS_ACAD · 42m 42 minutes ago
These two games will give a real reflection of the City players that perhaps the glowing reports of them is not as bright after all

I pretty much agree with this Tweet.

Only Angelino is close to making the step up for me, the rest are either quite a way off or will never be good enough.

Fair play to Chelsea, what a team they have developed at youth level, the perfect blend of top class technical ability and physical prowess, and what's great is most are English.

 

[Damocles]

MCFCReserves&Academy @MCFC_EDS_ACAD · 42m 42 minutes ago
These two games will give a real reflection of the City players that perhaps the glowing reports of them is not as bright after all

I pretty much agree with this Tweet.

Only Angelino is close to making the step up for me, the rest are either quite a way off or will never be good enough.

Fair play to Chelsea, what a team they have developed at youth level, the perfect blend of top class technical ability and physical prowess, and what's great is most are English.

I think that judging the entire future career of a player off of two games against the other best team in the youth leagues is so ridiculous that it's mind boggling somebody thought that this was a good point to make

 

[Ray78]

We just have soldier on and keeping learning. At least we have a clear plan on how we want our teams to play.

 

[blue city199]

MCFCReserves&Academy @MCFC_EDS_ACAD · 42m 42 minutes ago
These two games will give a real reflection of the City players that perhaps the glowing reports of them is not as bright after all

I pretty much agree with this Tweet.

Only Angelino is close to making the step up for me, the rest are either quite a way off or will never be good enough.

Fair play to Chelsea, what a team they have developed at youth level, the perfect blend of top class technical ability and physical prowess, and what's great is most are English.

I think that judging the entire future career of a player off of two games against the other best team in the youth leagues is so ridiculous that it's mind boggling somebody thought that this was a good point to make

+1 If anything these two games show us that the coaches at chelsea have done a superb job and jason willox and viera have a lot to learn

 

[Vialli98]

Just came across this photo comparing the heights of the two teams, and seeing as the size of the two teams were mentioned quite a lot in this thread I thought I come on and share it. I think this one was done for the first leg, so may not be the exact same line-up who started tonight.

I found it interesting that 4 City players were taller than their Chelsea counterparts, while 6 Chelsea players were taller than their City counterparts, so the gap perhaps isn't as massive as I first thought. There is not much in it between some of them, but obviously the ones that stick out of Chelsea's 3 forwards, Brown, Solanke and Abraham, who absolutely towering above most on the pitch. It was an interesting battle, as I think the forwards were up against some of City's tallest players.

 

[Ray78]

I pretty much agree with this Tweet.

Only Angelino is close to making the step up for me, the rest are either quite a way off or will never be good enough.

Fair play to Chelsea, what a team they have developed at youth level, the perfect blend of top class technical ability and physical prowess, and what's great is most are English.

I think that judging the entire future career of a player off of two games against the other best team in the youth leagues is so ridiculous that it's mind boggling somebody thought that this was a good point to make

+1 If anything these two games show us that the coaches at chelsea have done a superb job and jason willox and viera have a lot to learn

It's just two contrasting styles and at that age the bigger lads normally win unless the players have a high level of footballing intelligence,

 

[City Raider]

we have players with pace and players with power but they had more with both

it's a problem with first team too

 

[without a dream]

I pretty much agree with this Tweet.

Only Angelino is close to making the step up for me, the rest are either quite a way off or will never be good enough.

Fair play to Chelsea, what a team they have developed at youth level, the perfect blend of top class technical ability and physical prowess, and what's great is most are English.

I think that judging the entire future career of a player off of two games against the other best team in the youth leagues is so ridiculous that it's mind boggling somebody thought that this was a good point to make

+1 If anything these two games show us that the coaches at chelsea have done a superb job and jason willox and viera have a lot to learn

Not really. The point of the 'holistic' project is to get the whole club playing a similar style. If we packed that side with 6 foot lads and made them work on their shape for 30 hours a week they may well have beaten Chelsea but that would do fuck all for getting them ready to play in our first 11.

 

[IWasHere]

its scary how much better are than us. I don't know about a lovely training ground. We should poach chelseas youth coaches

+1
every one is saying how big the chelsea players were but what i say was both teams play technically superb players( not impressed with kean bryan though ) but

chelsea were tactically better than us and were well drilled and that is the reason that they won

Genuinely thought Bryan had a good game. Made quite a few good interceptions in our box. He reminds me of gazza b. Agree with you though, tactically they were better than us.

Watching the game today you can tell who's going to make it and who isn't.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

MCFCReserves&Academy @MCFC_EDS_ACAD · 42m 42 minutes ago
These two games will give a real reflection of the City players that perhaps the glowing reports of them is not as bright after all

I pretty much agree with this Tweet.

Only Angelino is close to making the step up for me, the rest are either quite a way off or will never be good enough.

Fair play to Chelsea, what a team they have developed at youth level, the perfect blend of top class technical ability and physical prowess, and what's great is most are English.

I think that judging the entire future career of a player off of two games against the other best team in the youth leagues is so ridiculous that it's mind boggling somebody thought that this was a good point to make

completely agree

 

[Yates]

So just found out Humphries at CB is only 16? Him and Tosin look promising for their age

 

[sam-caddick]

So just found out Humphries at CB is only 16? Him and Tosin look promising for their age

I like the look of Tosin, looks a little lanky but he can read the game and intercept really well.

 

[mad zab]

We lost to a very good team over two great games. I really enjoyed how the lads kept on trying to play their football.

Although it would have been great to win the trophy, it's all about developing lads for the first team.

I thought most of them showed great technical ability. It's now up to them how much they want to succeed. It may not be with City, but quite a few of them have the raw ingredients to make a career for themselves.

 

[IWasHere]

So just found out Humphries at CB is only 16? Him and Tosin look promising for their age

He impressed me a lot tonight, kid has composure as well.

 

[bluwes]

MCFCReserves&Academy @MCFC_EDS_ACAD · 42m 42 minutes ago
These two games will give a real reflection of the City players that perhaps the glowing reports of them is not as bright after all

I pretty much agree with this Tweet.

Only Angelino is close to making the step up for me, the rest are either quite a way off or will never be good enough.

Fair play to Chelsea, what a team they have developed at youth level, the perfect blend of top class technical ability and physical prowess, and what's great is most are English.

I think whoever runs that unofficial Twitter page is a bit of a knob, always posting negative tweets. Pay no attention