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    Mazeed Ogungbo (D b.2002 Arsenal)

    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    Ogungbo travelling with the Arsenal first team tonight

    Makes the bench with Kieran Tierney missing tonight.
    Last edited by tetsujin1979; 11/04/2022 at 9:42 AM.

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    Was named on the bench against Brighton, and then removed, but no reason given.
    Tierney is out for the season, so he could make his debut before the end of the season
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    He's not a player I know a lot about - is he seen as a genuine top level prospect or is it just that he's benefitting from a combination of the Tierney injury and Arsenal having a small enough first team squad?

    He hasn't been making the Ireland Under 21 squad, don't think he even started that Under 20 game, which maybe suggests that he's not too highly rated in the Ireland setup?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eirambler View Post
    He's not a player I know a lot about - is he seen as a genuine top level prospect or is it just that he's benefitting from a combination of the Tierney injury and Arsenal having a small enough first team squad?

    He hasn't been making the Ireland Under 21 squad, don't think he even started that Under 20 game, which maybe suggests that he's not too highly rated in the Ireland setup?
    We’re far from infallible when it comes to spotting and nurturing the best talent for under-age squads. If he’s making the bench at Arsenal that puts him ahead of a few that have picked up caps at that level.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eirambler View Post
    He's not a player I know a lot about - is he seen as a genuine top level prospect or is it just that he's benefitting from a combination of the Tierney injury and Arsenal having a small enough first team squad?
    Probably a little of both. He'd been training with the first team squad during the international break, and played in a friendly against Brentford's B team

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    He hasn't been making the Ireland Under 21 squad, don't think he even started that Under 20 game, which maybe suggests that he's not too highly rated in the Ireland setup?
    He was born in October 2002, so still young for the U21 squad. From the last squad against Sweden - https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/u21-...eden-qualifier - only Mipo Odubeko and Dan Rose are younger than him. Odubeko is actually only a day younger!

    I think he'll still be qualified for the U21s for the next UEFA Under 21 Championship. Players born on or after 1st January 2000 are eligible for the 2023 tournament, so it should be players born on or after 1st January 2002 that will be eligible for the next one

    He was in the U19 squad that was knocked out of the 2020 Under 19 Championship in the qualifying round, in a strong group, and didn't play any international football again for nearly two years due to the pandemic
    https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/moha...ers-in-austria
    Again, he'd have been one of the younger members of that squad, Conor Noss was in that squad and is almost two years older than him (born January 2000)

    It looks like he is highly rated in the FAI - only a little over a year before that U19 squad was announced, in May 2018, he was named in the Under 16 squad for a tournament in Sweden - https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/irel...ish-tournament - and it looks like he skipped the U17 age group entirely
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    Seems this lad could be in line for a loan move this season. The Arsenal U23s took over as Crawley Town manager last week and brought the U18s manager as his assistant. Finished 12th in League Two and could be a good starting ground in senior football for the lad and working with coaches that already know him.


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    Quote Originally Posted by JR89 View Post
    Seems this lad could be in line for a loan move this season. The Arsenal U23s took over as Crawley Town manager last week and brought the U18s manager as his assistant. Finished 12th in League Two and could be a good starting ground in senior football for the lad and working with coaches that already know him.

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    And just like that Ogungbo is gone on loan to Crawley for the season.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tetsujin1979 View Post
    It looks like he is highly rated in the FAI - only a little over a year before that U19 squad was announced, in May 2018, he was named in the Under 16 squad for a tournament in Sweden - https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/irel...ish-tournament - and it looks like he skipped the U17 age group entirely
    that was such a weird squad for the home tournament. first including 3 goalkeepers was bizzare, it's just not done with a 20 man tournament squad. corcoran was suspended for game 1, either risk it for game 1 or pick halwax and leave corcoran behind, either way bazunu should be your keeper.
    including sean mcevoy, sean kennedy, roland idowu and to a lesser extent luke turner and ronan mckinley seemed really weird at the time, and it still seems weird. i think everyone expected odubeko, ogungbo and sotona to be part of the squad. looking back now, guys like killian phillips, kian leavy, dara costelloe, tony springett and tom cannon were alternatives (with caveats like when did we realise cannon was eligible, was phillips a late bloomer etc) ...

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