The little girl in the top left looks like she's plotting someone's death. I think she poisoned someone's drink.
It would've been very surprising if he'd got more than cameo minutes with Reading this season - he's only just turned 19. If you look at the competition he's up against at Reading, its very stiff, there's one of the top scorers in the Championship,, a sometime Portuguese NT player, a Czech NT player on loan from Watford and a Brazilian U-23 NT player on loan from Chelsea, none of whom have sucked. His main competition for cameo minutes is the top scorer in the Premiership Development League (who ironically is an English player who came from the US college system via non-league). We also have a few strikers out on loan. In my experince you can be one of the best players in reserve Premeirship and still not be able to get minutes at Championship level. At the moment Novkovich is not even the best striker on Reading Reserves, so realistically he is not close to getting anything more than the odd few minutes for the 1st team. That's not to say that Novakovich is behind the curve - there aren't any younger strikers who would be ahead of Novakovich for minutes.
The manager, Steve Clarke, has been sacked after only one win in 8 games. Might be good for Andrija; might be bad; most likely neither.
Mate, you know the answer. You can't be upset at the coach that Nova didn't live up to the standard necessary to get first team minutes. Be glad he was given an opportunity.
I literally never said that. He didn't live up to the standard, coach obviously saw potential in him since he played him last season, so he gave him an opportunity. At the end of the day him in the first team of a club is more important than him be on the U20 World Cup team. The coach wasn't sitting in his office like "oh USA wants Novakovich? F*** them, I'm gonna not let him go and not play him this season", we should honestly be happy a young yank was given an opportunity.
Whetehr its the right or wrong decision, I get the feeling this season is seen as important as transitioning him from a youth player to a pro player and the club wanted him to spend the pre-season with the senior squad. The chances of him getting serious minutes were not high though.
He entered the game in the 56th minute. The one existing tweet about his gameplay: Novakovich did well, shot blocked by a defender, Wright follows up to make it 3-1 and net his 11th goal of the season #ctfc #ctfclive— Jon Palmer (@JonPalmerSport) December 5, 2015
Apparently he did quite well in a FA Cup game. http://m.westerndailypress.co.uk/FA...dash-Johnson/story-28363865-detail/story.html
Cheltenham were knocked out of the FA Cup before Novakovich arrived. This was the FA Trophy, a cup competition for clubs in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th tiers of the pyramid.
73rd minute sub against Altrincham 12/19: http://us.soccerway.com/matches/201...nal/cheltenham-town-fc/altrincham-fc/2065427/ Started and played 45 at Kidderminster Harriers 12/26: http://us.soccerway.com/matches/201...nster-harriers-fc/cheltenham-town-fc/2065440/ On the bench against Torquay United 12/28: http://us.soccerway.com/matches/201...cheltenham-town-fc/torquay-united-fc/2065461/ Cheltenham Town have won 6 straight in all competitions.
Novakovich's loan expired on Jan 2. He's back with Reading now and came on as a substitute against Manchester United U21 on Jan 11.
Entered in the U21 match against Liverpool: 67 mins: Reading sub - Andrija Novakovich replaces Shane Griffin— Mark Philbin (@markphilbin) January 31, 2016 And missed a great chance at goal.
On the bench for the Reading U21s against Tottenham: Reading U21s subs: Owusu, Rinomhota, Husin, Novakovich, Southwood (GK).— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) March 3, 2016
U21 league action: Chelsea: Collins, Dabo (c), Conroy, Tomori, Aina, Colkett, Maddox, Ali, Abraham, Scott, Mitchell.— Chelsea Youth (@chelseayouth) March 7, 2016 Reading: Ward, Watson, Owusu, Fridjonsson, Jules, Shaughnessy, Novakovich, Kuhl, Cardwell, Kelly, Fosu— Chelsea Youth (@chelseayouth) March 7, 2016