News: Emerging players 2021/22 World Cup year

Vitinha, reports now stating he's remaining at Porto? Anyways the exact box tob ox the national team needs, fantastic player with amazing passing/vision/skill. Hopefully he has a huge season.

Ronaldo Camara + Paulo Bernardo at Benfica. A couple midfielders who ran the show when Benfica was turning heads in the CL youth league. Can they break through to the 1st team with JJ? Might need to get Brazilian passports

Goncalo Ramos- Clinical striker, will he get actual playing time?

Trincao: Needs to develop after having a so so season with Barcelona

Pedro Neto: Was right up there with Foden as the best young player in the EPL pre-injury, hopefully he doesn't lose any of his pace and explosiveness once he returns later in the fall.

David Carmo: CB from Braga who was looking imposing and turning heads across Europe, Liverpool were seriously looking at him before he broke his leg this Spring. How will he look when he returns to action?

Rafeal Leao: Will he actually look to be the best soccer player he can be and utilize his talent, or worry more about his rap tapes?

Joelson Fernandes & Inacio from Sporting.

All players who could have breakout seasons in terms of notoriety and quality compared to the last one.

 

My first post here. A broken portuguese heart who is depressed with the prospect of having Santos as a coach in Qatar. So this one is about emerging players for the future right? By emerging players I will mention even those who already have been called to the main squad.

First: Gonçalo Inácio. ​

As a Sporting fan I have the curiosity to see if this season he will be able to confirm the good signs of last season. With Champions League Football it will be a real test for him and the other players.

I have no doubt only Ruben Amorim in Portugal has the balls to play this type of players on the first 11. With JJ or Conceição they will die on the bench.

The plus side regarding Gonçalo is that if we didn't had that spineless coward on the NT we could use a progressive 3/5/2 system on the National team, where we could have a emerging talent (Inacio), a consolidated player (Dias), and a veteran (Pepe), and he has a good skill of making long passes, but with Santos he would only be allowed to make 1000 crosses to a isolated Ronaldo.

And with the 3/5/2 we would solve the Ronaldo tatical problem playing him alongside Andre Silva,a real striker. After this Euros Jota only coming from the bench. Oh, and we would kill the problem of our fullbacks being much better attacking than defending, can only imagine this system with Guerreiro and Cancelo as the wide players.

Then the midfield would depend on the moment of form of certain players, it was terrible the Euros done by Fernandes, Bernardo and Jota, but I still blame Santos tatics, problem is the players never say nothing in public regarding his tatical choices, then don't complain if everyone thinks you are garbage.

Second: Nuno Mendes​

Hope he stays 1 more season in Portugal. If he stays under Amorim, I repeat what I said about Gonçalo, Champions League Football is another level of development.

Third: Fabio Silva​

Think Lage will be better for his development personally, Nuno was very defensive, terrible to be a striker playing that type of football. Big hope he cab be the natural sucessor of Andre Silva, who will suceed Ronaldo after his retirement on Qatar (it has to be, and one day we will speak regarding Ronaldo, Pepe, Moutinho, etc).

Fourth: Joelson Fernandes​

Big curiosity to see what are Amorim plans for him. Can he make a few games for the first team this season? He probably will play more for the B team on Liga 3, and his family or agents are always blackmailing regarding the issues of renewing his contract. Problem with the hype of youth players on Sporting Academy is that they think they are the next Ronaldo when they aren't even 10% of Nani level.

Fifth: Rodrigo Gomes​

I have heard very good things from him. Plays for Braga, is a winger, but as we know Braga never plays very young players, or Mendes sells them to another club of his circuit, or they will have to wait a long time for the first team. Carvalhal is another portuguese coach fraud regarding balls to play youth players. But one to pay attention.

Sixth: Ronaldo Camará​

Another one who while that big mouth trash talker JJ remains at Benfica or any club will have to be born 100 times to play on the place of some South American he watched during the night. Benfica fans know better than me his potential, but any of this players, born in 2003 (Joelson, Rodrigo, Camará), if they were in France or the Netherlands they would be already training and competing on the first team. No doubt about that.

Sorry for the long post, but I lost myself because I am really upset for what Santos did with this group of players in 2021, I am not one of those who demands victories in every tournament, because it's really hard to win things at this level against big nations, but he didn't adapted to the new wave of players since 2016, and thought that formula of 2016 was the way to be sucessful, we all know that the way we won that tournament will never repeat again, and he was tatically lost during the competition, all the cracking signs were there to see, you just need to remember the second half at Serbia, our first game against a team so bad that I only remember we played the match in Italy and won 1:0, where Pedro Neto made 100 crosses to Ronaldo. Pure trash.

It's really sickening to watch the total brainwash his friends on the media are doing to save his ass once again. Saying we better not play well and win that play beautifull and lose. I have something to tell to those clowns, we have been playing shit and we are not winning many matches playing like that. 15 games between Euros and WC and only 3 wins in 90 minutes. Wales, Morocco, Hungary.

Anyone here remembers that Champagne Football vs Morocco, right?

Ok, sorry guys, next time on this thread I will only mention the name of potential talents, it was the way of presenting myself.

 

Embalo is a lost cause probaly
Onto Hugo Felix

 

Portugal needs a youth movement at this point so if you bring in any of these players into the team by the time Qatar rolls around, Portugal would look even more dangerous depth wise

 

I’m out of touch with the Portuguese league been 2 or so years now I have stopped watching only tune in when Maritimo is on.
But just had to post this here 30 years since we last won our 2nd u20 World Cup with over 130 thousand in the luz

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Now I watched our u21s and the one player that really stood out for me was Fábio Vieira. I think he even got player of the tournament. just wish we had that crop of player in the video coming through again but again they never won anything with the main team

 

Really hoping some of our central defenders start coming through that they get a chance in the main club team and even a chance along side Dias in couple of friendly games

 

We need to start using a different tatical system who suits the players we have. This 4/3/3 was all over the place and a lot of players weren’t playing on the positions where they play on their respective clubs. You cannot put Fernandes playing almost as a second striker against Hungary, or Bernardo as a classical winger making crosses to the area, where his role is to cover the opponent’s fullbacks. Santos is an outdated coach.

He was able to lose a league with Deco/Capucho/Drulovic/Jardel. And we all know on that era who the refs protected in the League. If he remains for Qatar we better not fool ourselves, things will not improve and he will not start games instructing the players to press the opponents on their defensive line. Only yada yada counter attack and expecting individual players to solve his tatical ineptitude.

But regarding emerging players it’s a pitty only Amorim has the balls to give young players a chance on the Domestic League. The rest belong to the Mendes carrousel who will finish on a Wolverhampton instead playing for Porto or Benfica first 11.

 

Does anyone knows if Vitinha stays at Porto? Don't imagine Conceição playing him that much. He is just a younger version of JJ.

 

Completely undeserved award. For me with that performance on the semifinals and in the final none of our players deserved that award, even less Fabio Vieira, if anyone deserved that from Portugal was Vitinha. He will not play much under Conceição.

 

Not sure if he's emerging still but Trincao on loan to Wolves with option to buy. Hopefully he gets tons of playing time.

 

Yes, and the informations I have is that he really is talented.

 

He will, for sure. Definitely got loads of talent. He's in my top five prospect pool. Elite? We'll see.

 

Portugal have a next Golden generation of players already set up or it is coming and honestly I can't wait. I would have thought that after CR7 retired from the national team, that Portugal would just look ordinary but they are anything but. Especially with the whole influx of talent either coming in or are already there, Portugal will be more than fine come Qatar.

 

With Santos coaching the team that doesn't matter.

 

Unless Portugal decide to get rid of Santos

 

It's not happening. I guess that everyone (including me) is frustrated with Santos in the last 2 tournaments, but Qatar is around the corner and there's really no time for a new coach to come in and get the team playing his way before next summer. So it will be another, pick XI and go do your best, which also never works. It will be Santos.

So if Santos doesn't wake up, it's over.

 

Yeah but I definitely see Trincao in the side for 2022

 

Logic is with you, but we need the Virgin Mary to have a word with Santos too.