Centurions
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I'm not sure on the rules but if he's back in training (apparently) with everybody else at the CFA doesn't that mean he has a work permit?
Kelechi Iheanacho
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Ric said:
If he doesn’t have one then he can’t be here earning money. Has he not been with us since the summer, I’m pretty sure he isn’t going to be training with the team for sh!ts and giggles all this time waiting for immigration to catch up with him.
Something going on here (other than work permits) ?
Neville Kneville
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Gaudion M said:
For one thing, City don't have to tell us if he has a permit or not, so he could have one. But assuming he hasn't, we already have African players playing outside the country & earning money, so it's pretty certain we can get round paying him easily enough.
His injury is probably responsible for the lack of clarity. Can he even be registered for this season now the transfer window is closed ?
If not, why decide anything or announce anything ?
without a dream
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twosips said:
Which is a fucking pain in the arse as he'd have qualified as HG if he'd been signed up on his 18th birthday.
without a dream said:
He might have been, i just meant in terms of seeing City game time. No way we're gonna introduce an unknown with all this at stake i guess. Either way, HG or not he's potentially good enough to be irrelevant towards HG - he could be that important to us eventually that we're happy to sacrifice someone else anyway.
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without a dream said:
he will still be homegrown as long as he remain here for the next three seasons
HG allows inclusion of the season in which the players turns 21, so that would be the 17-18 season, at the end of which he would have spent 36 months or more
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Kelly is ecstatic
Neville Kneville
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bluechampion7891 said:
He is probably signed up anyway.
abellwillring
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I pointed this out to @City_Watch, but just to reiterate as he hasn't mentioned it: it looks like Kelechi could be playing in our UYL game tomorrow. AfricanFootball.com posted the following regarding him playing in the African Youth Championship:
I checked the UEFA.com site, and Kelechi is now listed in our squad for the UYL (<a class="postlink" href="http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/season=2015/clubs/player=250081385/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/sea ... index.html</a>). With this in mind, he most certainly has received his work permit as he'd be ineligible for registration otherwise. I think he might get a run out tomorrow.
<a class="postlink" href="http://africanfootball.com//news/512629/Iheanacho-to-gate-crash-AYC-final-squad" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://africanfootball.com//news/512629 ... inal-squad</a>
I checked the UEFA.com site, and Kelechi is now listed in our squad for the UYL (<a class="postlink" href="http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/season=2015/clubs/player=250081385/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/sea ... index.html</a>). With this in mind, he most certainly has received his work permit as he'd be ineligible for registration otherwise. I think he might get a run out tomorrow.
sam-caddick
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Yes, it looks like he will be playing.
It can only be an advantage because looks a very good young player so let's see how well he integrates with the other lads tomorrow.
It can only be an advantage because looks a very good young player so let's see how well he integrates with the other lads tomorrow.
lightning Rodri
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Great news..hopefully he will gel quickly with his future team mates...
Rodney Marsh's Hair
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Great news! Hopefully he'll get a run out at some point today.
abellwillring
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Came on for 10 minutes and went back off injured. I am just reading text updates.. unsure if he took a hard foul or if this was a reoccurrence of his ankle injury or what.
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He seemed to injure his ankle again, it looked quite innocuous but he gestured to be subbed as soon as he went down and wasn't too keen to carry on. Nothing serious in my opinion he seemed to be walking okay on it afterwards.abellwillring said:
Hungarian blue
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There was one situation when he held up the ball brilliantly but then he was too selfish as he tried another trick to go past the defender, while Ambrose was waiting completely free on the wing.
It is interesting because on the American tour, I loved that he almost always went for the ideal option; whether it was brilliand link-up play or holding onto the ball. Probably he was just trying too much, or he trusted more the senior players and off course he had a long injury and has new teammates, so hopefully it will just get better. Even in his 10 minutes or so he did some nice stuff.
It is interesting because on the American tour, I loved that he almost always went for the ideal option; whether it was brilliand link-up play or holding onto the ball. Probably he was just trying too much, or he trusted more the senior players and off course he had a long injury and has new teammates, so hopefully it will just get better. Even in his 10 minutes or so he did some nice stuff.