Unfortantely, we’re going to have to read a lot of “needs to improve his decision making” or “end product needs work” in the coming years, as if 17 year old wingers ever have that stuff figured out.
The combination of pace, strength, tenacity and the ability to dribble past the man either way is something I haven’t really seen from a youth player of ours, even including Sterling.
Totally agree, if Salah did/does go the Doom Mongers state a lot of what you just said, if Salah goes well be fine with Doak in the squad…
But some will need to us to sign someone with a foreign name that sounds a little snazzy and cost us £70 million + as opposed to giving an academy lad that has the potential for great things …and has a bland name of Doak…if we can convince a few it’s pronounced “Deooaake”…might be a start😂
Even though the demand is popular for him and Quansah, I’d rather wait for both of them to start playing a bit more because years have showed that these threads are usually not visited after the initial excitement. We can discuss both of them here for a while.
Jaros
Miles Pitt Nallo Davidson
McConnell Pilling Clark
Musialowski Koumas Kone-Doherty
Subs: Kelly, Pinnington, Hill, Spearing, Nyoni, Danns, Glatzel
First starts at U21 level for new signing Nallo and first year scholar Lucas Pitt. Jaros’ first game of the season also. Trey Nyoni, who has scored twice in two games for the U18s since signing from Leicester, is on the bench. Tom Hill and Paul Glatzel - both scored in a 2-0 win over Wolves at the weekend - are also on the bench.
Early days, but promising. A few brainfarts aside here and there, he was very good. Here’s hoping he can save us a few quid, as we will almost surely look to add in defence in coming transfer windows. And also that bloody homegrown quota.