01 Jul 2025 12:58:43
With pre-season around the corner, who are people most excited about from the youth and any suprises?
I think Rio will shine and the suprise will be Trent Kone-Doherty.
01 Jul 2025 13:39:04
I quite like the look of both Rio and Nyoni. But both are still very lightweight and need to bulk up a bit more to be able to survive in the men's level.
01 Jul 2025 13:41:58
I must admit, I don't watch any of our youngsters, unless they play for the first team. What I've seen of them, I don't think any of them are ready to push for a place in the squad. They all appear lightweight. Just my opinion.
01 Jul 2025 14:02:53
Chiesa.
01 Jul 2025 14:23:49
I don't know if you said that as a joke Akira but it is actually not a bad shout. For the first time he will be on a par with everybody else fitness wise!
01 Jul 2025 14:44:17
Rio is exciting but for me he is still so raw and a long way of the first team. He would benefit from a loan move to a lower league team to get a feel for first team football. He seems very naive in his play which is expected given his age, but his talent and technical ability is there.
01 Jul 2025 13:58:54
It will be interesting. I'm sure youth will get a chance to shine but with no international football this summer there will be a full squad available pre season so they might need to fight a little harder for it than normal.
I'm sure there will be a couple of surprises but hopefully Rio and Trey can put on a good show and maybe Baj and Danns if they recover from their injuries in time.
01 Jul 2025 14:05:47
James McConnell.
01 Jul 2025 14:52:54
I’d like to see Mamardashvilli - not strictly a youth player but hyped and derided in equal measure on these boards so I’d like to see if he shows glimmers of being the heir to Ali.
I’m rather keen to see Wellity Lucky too - we’ve had a few big units at CB who haven’t worked out - who was the chap a few seasons ago who was brick sh1thpuse build at the age of 18 but didn’t work out? I’d like to see if we have struck it Lucky this time.
01 Jul 2025 14:59:46
Not a joke. We are not able to sell him and do not want to loan him. So best option will be to give him a run and see if can save us 100m this season. That was the plan last year. That should be the plan this year.
Just one bad game should not decide his fate. Back him properly and if it doesn’t work sell him later in window or January.
The striker market is so inflated i would risk going in without one till January. At that time when newcastle are 10th in the league and out of CL we can get Isak much cheaper.
I genuinely think Chiesa should be given backing upfront as our number 9 sharing the load with Jota and danns and if it works its saves us so much money. That is exactly why we took a punt on him.
01 Jul 2025 15:51:20
I would like to see what Calum Scanlon can do, the very few games he got for Milwall he got very good reviews and ratings. Scored a beauty too.
01 Jul 2025 16:18:12
Slot seems high on McConnell, personally I think Tyler Morton is the better of the two with the higher ceiling.
Very Gerrard/ Trent like cross from him for the winning goal in England's U21 final v Germany.
I expect Tyler will be sold but I hope they put in a "buy back" clause in any deal.
01 Jul 2025 16:42:32
Scanlon and Beck esp if we sell robbo and Tsimi.
01 Jul 2025 17:16:44
Nice to see somone else mention the boy Kone-Doherty. The kid is electric.
01 Jul 2025 19:34:19
Me too, Ron.
01 Jul 2025 20:53:51
It's probably a bit early for Nyoni yet, but the clips I saw suggest a tremendous talent. Very few youngsters carry that through to the first team at the top level though, the game is littered with players that shone brightly but briefly before a career in relative obscurity.
Nyoni just oozes class, but he looked a slender lad. I don't know about bulking up, but he definitely needs to be stronger to get close to the first team.
01 Jul 2025 23:05:18
Chiesa, Jota and Danns, Akira?
I suppose just hoping they will start to perform could work.
Chiesa was not bought to save us £100m.
02 Jul 2025 00:06:19
Im not sure about Kone-Doherty. He does have skill but he seems to drift in and out of matches. Will be anonymous and then suddenly pop up and do something. he give me Harry wilson vibes but Im hoping that he will kick on and be better than that.