There were three of them in the Forest-Sheff United game yesterday with Williams, Robinson and Larouci. Awoniyi also but he never actually played for us. Brewster is at Sheff United.
Sergi Canos is the player you are thinking of at Brentford. He’s still there, soent the second half of last season at Olympiakos. Yep Harry Wilson is at Fulham and a regular starter.
Kelleher, Jones, Bajcetic and Alexander-Arnold for us. Nat Phillips and Rhys Williams too.
Leighton Clarkson is probably Aberdeen’s best player.
Raheem Sterling at Chelsea, of course.
Danny Ward was the starter at Leicester for most of last season.
Lawrence Vigouroux is the current backup at Burnley.
Pedro Chirivella is a starter at Nantes.
Ryan Kent made the EL final with Rangers and is now at Fenerbahce.
Kamil Grabara will be a CL starting goalkeeper if Copenhagen beat Rakow.
Rafa Camacho is at Sporting CP.
Liam Millar has done well for FC Basel.
There are also one of two who have been approached and we’ve strongly rebuffed - Isaac Mabaya was one when Leverkusen tried to get him.
Think thats about it for top level football - we have a bunch of guys in the Championship level.
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The guy who went to Wolves and Everton?
Wilson was mostly a backup player at Fulham last season. Had an average of 42.8 minutes per appearance in all competitions. Maybe he will start more this season.
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He was coming back from a knee injury and started 8 of their last 9.
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No place for this in life or sport
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Flipping heck, what is wrong with people? Good on the players for walking off, that takes some courage.
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So the story is that a young player was told “months earlier” that he would be renewed - in that time he got a back injury - he reached the end of his registration and recieved an automated email saying he had reached the end of his registration at the club which, in an internal report, the club said “did not reflect Liverpool’s final position on his registration”.
Then his parents threw some shot about Inglethorpe having a relationship with a psychologist at the club which was dismissed as irrelevant as Inglethorpe nor the psychologist directly have a role in deciding which players get registered.
Seems a bit sloppy but nothing as outrageous as the headline states. Here is an article by the same website (and same author!) with a decidedly less screechy tone. Liverpool admit to ‘inadequate’ academy processes after player’s parents complaint - The Athletic
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Seen Oscar Kelly with the u21s. I thought he was released?
Still reading it through, but genuinely feels like the parent is overreacting to their child not having automatically been extended, and blaming all the issues on the club. Also sounds very much like an overbearing parent, which makes me wonder how much of her child’s issues are down to her…
He was, I imagine he’s training with us because he hasn’t found a new club and/or is moving into coaching and is doing his badges with us.
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Seen that article. Only a quick read I had.
My two cents is that….the article and story behind it are messy af. This poor from the athletic to be even posting that (mentioning relationships within the club is also very low). Think the mum is an overbearing parent but do have sympathy for her with the child’s issues with anger/injuries with the desperation from her mixed in for him to succeed.
At a young age for the child while his dreams are flowing, for the issues of the professional game to be interfering is stressing her out, add in the fathers health issues and two parents two homes that I’ve gathered from the wording adds up to be desperation to get this kids story out there as a misjustice while grabbing at any straws to justify it. Looks bad anyways and I am probably miles off the mark.
Yeah I definitely think there was an overreaction. It’s understandable, I’m sure any parent would be protective of their kid being told their time at Liverpool is over via email but they seem to have overstepped the mark. Club have accepted they made mistakes but the idea that someone being verbally told “months earlier” they wouldn’t be released is somehow an unusual or systemic problem is bizarre. It’s a cut-throat business and unfortunately, as much as we would like it to be better, kids get promised things all the time at every club in the country.
Coaches should be more aware of their language. Him telling a 15 year old kid that he’d have to “fall off a cliff” in order to not be retained probably was a 5 second conversation that he immediately forgot about, but to the kid it no doubt meant a lot to hear so its perfectly reasonable to feel let down when that turns out to not be true - especially by email.
Academy football is definitely not always nice and I want the players welfare to be put at the forefront. I’d argue Liverpool made mistakes but they did still have a professional psychologist for the kid to use and I know who the player is - although not mentioned in the article - and they found a move to another very good club for youth development, a club Liverpool have a strong recent connection with and which I have no doubt came about because of the club getting him in there.
Not perfect, the club should do better and have admitted faults in their process but it’s not this ghastly story about an evil academy ruining a kids life because of some unrelated relationship between Inglethorpe and a club psychologist like the parents appear to be pushing.
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Wish Pep would just STFU.
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