The official EDS and academy thread 2011/12

[LoveCity]

Here is the team playing Rochdale right now in the Manchester Senior Cup:

Johansen, Smith, Bridge, Francisco Silva Jnr, Onuoha, Rekik, Roman, Tse, Hiwula, Suarez, Helan

Quite a team but currently losing 1-0 after 12 minutes. Strangely enough one of our own players Ahmad Benali, on loan at Rochdale, is playing against us.

 

[LoveCity]

Hurrah, 3-2 win for the Blues, Suarez x2 and Roman it looks like were the scorers.

 

[Matt the Giant]

Good to hear our little Spanish whiz-kids are doing so well. I really hope Suarez will be more involved with the first team next season as I feel he could be quite a player.

Hopefully the OS will have footage up and running soon.

 

[Deepest Blue]

From the bit -'ve seen of Suarez he has all the tools but his concentration, awareness and desire are holding him back.
Trust the coaches to instill that into him.

 

[Matt the Giant]

From the bit -'ve seen of Suarez he has all the tools but his concentration, awareness and desire are holding him back.
Trust the coaches to instill that into him.

I've heard that too, but he seems to raise his game dramatically when involved with the first team. Maybe he is a bit too good for the youth squad/games?

With Mancini to man-manage him, and Silva to tutor/mentor him, we could be looking at a future little wizard in the making.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

From the bit -'ve seen of Suarez he has all the tools but his concentration, awareness and desire are holding him back.
Trust the coaches to instill that into him.

I've heard that too, but he seems to raise his game dramatically when involved with the first team. Maybe he is a bit too good for the youth squad/games?

With Mancini to man-manage him, and Silva to tutor/mentor him, we could be looking at a future little wizard in the making.

From what I've seen he can beat a couple of men which relative ease, he can be pretty direct and has a decent turn of pace and strength about him, picked that up in the Celtic game where he stood out like a sore thumb amongst the others.

Think the Europa League, with maybe Assulin, Razak and anyone who comes back off loan in January for whatever reason should be mixed with Hargreaves and that will be far more beneficial for him than playing with the youth team as I think he plays better with better players around him, I think, and it's sometimes not a bad thing, that he feels he's better than the level he's playing at.

 

[LoveCity]

From the bit -'ve seen of Suarez he has all the tools but his concentration, awareness and desire are holding him back.
Trust the coaches to instill that into him.

I don't think he'll lack the desire when he is playing for the first team - as for the other two I suspect they will come, especially concentration (see: Richards, Micah).

It may be arrogant of him but I suspect Suarez isn't exactly motivated playing for the U18s... he'd already be getting regular Premier League football at a club like Blackburn and is miles above U18 level already, and he probably knows it.

Roman is the opposite, he's always motivated and humble, doesn't quite have the ability of Suarez, but is still very talented.

 

[itisrising]

Seen Roman play a few times and seems to be more ready than Denis. He has tremendous ability and he is much more direct player similar to that of Nani rather than Denis who is quite similar to David. Think we should send them on loan to Bolton or a Blackburn and see how they fare there. Didn't ruin Daniel did it?<br /><br />-- Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:09 pm --<br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94_Hsejupb8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94_Hsejupb8</a>

 

[MC ID]

This might be the wrong thread I apologise in advance but does anyone know how Michael Johnson is doing?

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

u18 playing wolves today and a win would send them top of the league.