U18 Players 2019/20

[liamoo11]

Under 18 league back today. Goals for under 17 players ollie o'Neill Fulham, kavanagh middlesboro and also Charles derby who will be under 19 for us this year. Overall looks like maybe less players at that level than normal maybe due to better structures here now. Delap scored for man city obviously eligible for us at 17s this year.

[samhaydenjr]

A few interesting notes from the opening weekend of U18 action:

Three members of our Euro U17s squad were on the mark:

Conor Carty scored twice for Wolves against Stoke: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50748/u18-premier-league/2019-20/stoke-v-wolves

Meanwhile, the Southampton Academy continues to bring hope to us, with Roland Idowu getting a goal and assist against Aston Villa: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50747/u18-premier-league/2019-20/southampton-v-aston-villa

Charlie McCann scored a penalty for Man United against Sunderland: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50745/u18-premier-league/2019-20/man-utd-v-sunderland

Elsewhere, Joe Hodge got an assist for Man City against West Brom (quick, Mick, call him up before he grows bigger and England get a sniff!): https://www.premierleague.com/match/50749/u18-premier-league/2019-20/west-brom-v-man-city

Matt Everitt also credited with an assist for Brighton against Reading: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50741/u18-premier-league/2019-20/brighton-v-reading

"Irish Messi" Zak Gilsenan came on as a second-half sub for Blackburn but was on the end of a hammering by Liverpool: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50740/u18-premier-league/2019-20/blackburn-v-liverpool

[tetsujin1979]

Under 18 league back today. Goals for under 17 players ollie o'Neill Fulham, kavanagh middlesboro and also Charles derby who will be under 19 for us this year. Overall looks like maybe less players at that level than normal maybe due to better structures here now. Delap scored for man city obviously eligible for us at 17s this year.
Worth noting that Kavanagh is still part of the U16 squad

[tommy_c12000]

I note that Brighton finally have James Furlong on their website. There had been no official announcement of the transfer all summer apart from an incidental newspaper article. He’s on their under 18 team page. Did he play in their 3-2 win vs Reading? Can’t find the teams. Would be nice to see him progress to their under 23s lively

[tetsujin1979]

According to this - https://www.soccerway.com/matches/2019/08/10/england/premier-academy-league/brighton--hove-alb-u18/reading-fc-under-18-academy/3114758/ - Everitt was the only Irish player involved

[liamoo11]

According to this - https://www.soccerway.com/matches/2019/08/10/england/premier-academy-league/brighton--hove-alb-u18/reading-fc-under-18-academy/3114758/ - Everitt was the only Irish player involved

Leavy for reading is Irish as well. This has leahy at Brighton As rish qualified but I dont remember him ever been involved https://www.transfermarkt.com/jack-leahy/profil/spieler/567596

[liamoo11]

Goals today for varian at stoke and idowu at Southampton and omobamide at Norwich at under 18s. Gilsenan started for Blackburn in their win hopefully we see him in our 17s along with o neill at Fulham who started again today.

Assists for Flynn at Leicester under 19 for us this season, ogunbo arsenal under 18s for us and everitt Brighton.

Harkin scored for wolves against utd 17s for us this season. Sotona and McCann were involved for utd

https://www.premierleague.com/results?team=U18

[elatedscum]

Heard that Hodge has gotten a bad injury. More details if I get them.

Hopefully it’s a hurdle he’ll overcome on the road being a regular for Stephen Kenny’s Irish team

[tetsujin1979]

Heard that Hodge has gotten a bad injury. More details if I get them.

Hopefully it’s a hurdle he’ll overcome on the road being a regular for Stephen Kenny’s Irish team
Yeah? He played the full 90 minutes a few days ago for City's U18 side: https://www.mancity.com/news/academy/match-report/2019/august/city-u18s-v-newcastle-17-aug
CJ Egan-Riley was in defence, and Liam Delap was up front. Timi Sobwale was an unused sub

[Razors left peg]

Heard that Hodge has gotten a bad injury. More details if I get them.

Hopefully it’s a hurdle he’ll overcome on the road being a regular for Stephen Kenny’s Irish team
He has something on his Instagram page saying thanks for the support and he'll be back soon.

Never like to see a lad his age get a bad injury, very hard to come back from that

[samhaydenjr]

Have we found the next teenage potential star striker? Ethan Varian scores two and is credited with an assist in Stoke's 4-1 win over Sunderland: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50770/u18-premier-league/2019-20/sunderland-v-stoke

While the talk of Zak Gilsenan being the "Irish Messi" may have turned out to be a bit overblown, he does continue to make progress, playing the first 58 minutes for Blackburn U18s against Man United. Charlie McCann was credited with and assist, while Ayodeji Sotona played the last fifteen minutes: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50766/u18-premier-league/2019-20/man-utd-v-blackburn

[ILIA2]

Joe hodge - had an op on his injury yesterday. He is determined back as soon as he can but likely to be no sooner than the new year.

[liamoo11]

Goal for sotona at utd 18s today. Leahy with 2 for Brighton who it seems is eligible. Furlong involved for first time on bench for Brighton 18s. Gilsenan and kavanagh both started for Blackburn and middlesboro with rose on bench for everton as under 17s.

[tommy_c12000]

Goal for sotona at utd 18s today. Leahy with 2 for Brighton who it seems is eligible. Furlong involved for first time on bench for Brighton 18s.

Furlong already came on as a sub last Saturday

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2019/08/24/england/premier-academy-league/brighton--hove-alb-u18/leicester-city-fc-under-18-academy/3114767/?ICID=HP_MS_180_01

Thought he’d be with their U23s and not their U18s, hopefully he’ll get his chance as season progresses

[liamoo11]

Furlong already came on as a sub last Saturday

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2019/08/24/england/premier-academy-league/brighton--hove-alb-u18/leicester-city-fc-under-18-academy/3114767/?ICID=HP_MS_180_01

Thought he’d be with their U23s and not their U18s, hopefully he’ll get his chance as season progresses

Yeah it's a massive step down from first team at rovers isn't it. Playing first team at rovers would surely have been better

[liamoo11]

https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/ireland-u18-reid-names-squad-for-sweden-tournament . First squad of season few new additions. Nice to see McCann in there. Is that Sean Kennedy at cork city the lad who used to be at sunderland?

[Olé Olé]

https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/ireland-u18-reid-names-squad-for-sweden-tournament . First squad of season few new additions. Nice to see McCann in there. Is that Sean Kennedy at cork city the lad who used to be at sunderland?

Or the lad from Tralee Dynamos that was at the Euros?

[Olé Olé]

I assume all 3 of the new lads are English born. Clearly Mark O'Toole is working overtime.

[liamoo11]

Or the lad from Tralee Dynamos that was at the Euros?

Sean Kennedy from tralee moved to sunderland but haven't seen him in 18s or 23s squads for them so far this season

[liamoo11]

The excellent https://mobile.twitter.com/kennyskids?lang=en saying conor noss from Germany called up to 19s training squad

[samhaydenjr]

In today's action:

Ayodeji Sotona scored for Manchester United against Liverpool: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50779/u18-premier-league/2019-20/liverpool-v-man-utd

Festy Ebosele scored Derby's third against Middlesbrough: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50777/u18-premier-league/2019-20/derby-v-middlesbrough

Seamus Keogh was credited with the assist on the only goal as Southampton beat Arsenal: https://www.premierleague.com/match/50774/u18-premier-league/2019-20/arsenal-v-southampton

[liamoo11]

Josh Ireland who is eligible under 16 this season on bench for stoke 18s for first time. Bradley who played under 16 for north last season a midfielder I'd on bench for liverpool 18s for first time today

[liamoo11]

Goal for Nunn at 18s for Chelsea today we are likely a bit lighter up front at 19s this season than we have recently been with parrott and idah moved up. Carty at wolves and guirgi at Norwich with goals today as well. Goal for McCann for man utd 18s as well.

[elatedscum]

Josh Ireland who is eligible under 16 this season on bench for stoke 18s for first time. Bradley who played under 16 for north last season a midfielder I'd on bench for liverpool 18s for first time today

Bradley looked excellent in the 10 minutes he played. Won a penalty and just looked really classy. He'd be a player who I would be talking to if i was Noel King or whoever is in charge of recruitment. There was a northern irish u16 Alberto Balde who looked decent for Boro. I wonder is he actually eligible for them – and if he's eligible for us. He's a Spanish born lad whose family moved to Portadown as economic migrants apparently.

Graham Kavanagh's kid Callum came on for Boro with 20 minutes left, started wide on the left and then moved up front. Didn't really have much of an opportunity to show what he was like but he's young for the level, so can't complain really

[liamoo11]

Nico Jones is on bench for oxford against west ham tonight

[Olé Olé]

Good going. Hope he enjoys recognition with "an" adult side: https://www.oufc.co.uk/news/2019/august/nico-jones-international-call-up/

[samhaydenjr]

Goal and an assist for Festy Ebosele in the Premier League Cup today: https://uk.soccerway.com/matches/2019/09/28/england/u18-premier-league-cup/reading-fc-under-18-academy/derby-county-fc-under-18-academy/3161592/

[Olé Olé]

https://www.90min.com/posts/6464931-exclusive-west-ham-in-talks-to-sign-man-utd-academy-star-mipo-odubeko

Some interesting claims in here that Odubeko is being lined up for the West Ham under 23 side. I don't think he even played consistently for the United 18s side last year? Making an appearance for the first team before the season is out is another heady claim. This lad has a busy agent.

[Olé Olé]

He scored one in two games for their 18s. He does look to have an absolutely brilliant touch and close control, as well as good finishing instincts: https://youtu.be/8oloTuuXiPQ

[liamoo11]

Odubeko got off the mark in his first west ham under 18 game https://www.premierleague.com/match/50881/u18-premier-league/2019-20/swansea-v-west-ham

[samhaydenjr]

Odubeko got off the mark in his first west ham under 18 game https://www.premierleague.com/match/50881/u18-premier-league/2019-20/swansea-v-west-ham

Call him up MON/Mick/Kenny/Trap!

[First]

Sheffield United's Leo Gaxha (Tralee Dynamoes) 4 in 3 games with latest double coming against Crewe at the weekend in a 2-2 draw. Also Harvey Cullinan ( Newmarket Celtic) made his first start of the season after a delay in his registration and recovering from a broken hand. Played 90 at LCB.

[liamoo11]

Sheffield United's Leo Gaxha (Tralee Dynamoes) 4 in 3 games with latest double coming against Crewe at the weekend in a 2-2 draw. Also Harvey Cullinan ( Newmarket Celtic) made his first start of the season after a delay in his registration and recovering from a broken hand. Played 90 at LCB.

Someone was saying he is playing for Albania now (gaxha I mean not sure about harvey)

[First]

Someone was saying he is playing for Albania now (gaxha I mean not sure about harvey)

I believe he has travelled with them, really nice player. From what I have seen of him, he is not a player Ireland should be forgetting about but I suppose it's up to him and his family.
I'm fairly confident Harvey won't be travelling with Albania, turns 17 in 2 weeks so hopefully he will come to the notice of underage FAI scouts sometime.

[Olé Olé]

Gaxha's Instagram refers to Sheffield United and the Albanian FA in his bio. As a Kerryman myself, it would be disappointing if he were gone for good from the Ireland set-up.

[First]

Harvey Cullinan and Leo Gaxha started for Sheffield United U18 in a 2-0 win against Burnley on Saturday. Both unlucky not to score.

[First]

Leo Gaxha starts for SUFC 23's today against Leeds United.

[tetsujin1979]

Nice finish from Oliver O'Neill against Chelsea at the weekend
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[elatedscum]

I believe he has travelled with them, really nice player. From what I have seen of him, he is not a player Ireland should be forgetting about but I suppose it's up to him and his family.
I'm fairly confident Harvey won't be travelling with Albania, turns 17 in 2 weeks so hopefully he will come to the notice of underage FAI scouts sometime.

Any idea why he wasn't included in the U17 squad last year? He was involved in the friendlies in the build up. Ebosele, Everett and Carty all came out of the tournament pretty positively but Sean Kennedy, Roland Idowu and Ronan McKinley didn't exactly show a lot. You'd imagine Gaxha, Odubeko and Sotona could have offered more...

[seanfhear]

Nice finish from Oliver O'Neill against Chelsea at the weekend
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[liamoo11]

Hatrick for odubeko for west ham 18s hopefully Scully gets a loan in Jan and odubeko gets a chance at 23s. Sotona scored for utd s 18s , goal for nunn for Chelsea.

[tetsujin1979]

Odubeko assisted a goal in that game too

[liamoo11]

It's a pity the money issues at the fai will likely mean even less games at under 18 and 19 level leaving us poorly prepared for qualifiers.

[tetsujin1979]

I did wonder why there was no under 18 friendlies this year, there were two last December

[liamoo11]

Yeah and I'd say there wont be much 19s gamesceither after x mas now that we are out of the 19s. It's a real issue when you see the number of games and camps sides like England have. Massive step from 17s to 19s with so many players who can come into contention you need games to be playing them.

[seanfhear]

Can the government Nationalise the FAI for two or three years .

Is there really any other way out of this ?

[tommy_c12000]

Hatrick for odubeko for west ham 18s hopefully Scully gets a loan in Jan and odubeko gets a chance at 23s. Sotona scored for utd s 18s , goal for nunn for Chelsea.

Another 2 goals tonight in FA youth cup, looking like extra time. Impressing according to their website https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/december/13-december/live-west-ham-united-u18s-v-charlton-u18s

Expect him to be playing U23s in January as west ham make a push to secure promotion to PL2D1, now that Holland has moved to first team squad, and there may be 1 or 2 moving on as well

[tetsujin1979]

Timi Sobowale is on trial at Stoke City, playing against Liverpool U18s today
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[liamoo11]

Hodge on bench for city 18s today nice ti see him back after his injury

[tommy_c12000]

Hodge on bench for city 18s today nice ti see him back after his injury

Came on as well in second half, great to see!!