England U-20 Discussions Thread (2004 born)

Jamie Shackleton, a '99 born midfielder made his debut today for Leeds as a sub, looked competent. It is worth to follow the Bielsa-revolution, not just because they have been playing wonderful stuff so far, but he Bielsa wants 4 or 5 youth players in his bigger squad, and Leeds have a few good ones.

 

Interesting read about the Hirst-case: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/12/george-hirst-sheffield-wednesday-leuven-leicester

 

Andre Dozzell update from Paul Hurst.

It was rumoured he was going to go out on loan, but he is now not going to.

Hurst has confirmed he is desperate to get playing and is in the U23s currently, but they have done their tests on him which still show that under greeat strain an injury is more likely to re-occur.

They will be keeping him in house and working on his fitness to try and get him to, effectively, pass a re-test and get the all clear to get involved more in first team

 

It's obviously a shame that he's not fit and ready to go. But i'm encouraged by how sensible and honest Ipswich are being about him. They're obviously taking it seriously and just want the best for him.

 

The new manager is very open about it - he talks about him in todays press conference from 21:00 minutes here - talks about it for a good few minutes:

https://www.twtd.co.uk/livecam/46

 

Reports that marcus edwards is in talks with wolfsberg

 

Hopefully he's also in talks with himself. Sounds like a great move if he can apply himself though.

 

Hang on. Do you mean Wolfsberg or Wolfsburg? Wolfsberg would not be a great move...

 

lol,...given the apparent competency of his management team probably the former

 

Josh Dasilva opted for signing a permanent deal to Brentford. Perhaps the best possible solution.

 

After a few games Not sure going to Derby was a good decision from Mount. Barely sees the ball.

 

If I remember correctly, he didn't exactly set the Eredivisie on fire in his first months there: he didn't even play for a few weeks, only started to show his talent around November or so.
Derby themselves are far from being ready too, they still need some games to gel, hopefully Mount will find his form then.

 

Shackleton started yesterday for Leeds as a right back, had an assist and played really well.

 

He's also touching the ball more than he did at Vitesse.

 

roughly the same but in different conditions. Players behind him struggle to play forward, not impressive at all so far and I doubt it's a matter of form. I hope I'm wrong.

 

Mount scored again

 

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Also got an assist from a corner.

 

Tristan Nydam to join St Johnston on loan before the weekend

 

Seems a step down??? Makes more room for Dozzell when he gets back fit

 

I'm going to be watching Yan Dhanda play v crystal palace today. Remember this? Come on son!

 

Joyful watching Marcus Edwards back then, funnily enough he’s now in our ‘in limbo’ list!

 

just watched a few minutes but looked sharp

 

I agree, he looked good! He kept popping up in the pockets and created multiple scoring chances. Agreed on Edwards @Marcho Gamgee . A real shame. I was excited by that forwardline of dhanda -edwards-willock

 

So that's it for Karanka playing the youngsters: he completely froze out Worrall and Brereton, the latter even sold. Yates doesn"t play either, only Cash started last match.

 

Yates has gone to Rotherham. Worrall is heading out this week. Both may still have a future cause Karanka won't be there in January at this rate.