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Player Mikey Moore
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Because hopefully Madders and Kulu will be back soon-ish, and we also have Odobert, Tel and Kudus.
A lot will depend on how RDZ sets up and how he sees those options but the most important thing for Mickey is constant minutes.
He's just 18 and not ready to be thrown to the wolves just yet, he still needs to learn and grow.
I think he needs to play for a side that dominates the ball.
Millwall go up and they'll have 30% at best most weeks.
Yeah, if he does go on loan again, we need to be very careful about where he goes.
He's not getting involved much but rangers seem obsessed by playing everything going forward down the right wing, bypassing him completely
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No, I think he'll benefit more by a season in the Championship.... and if he comes back to us he might get the chance....
WIN-WIN!
19 at the start of next season, Dowman is 16. Gray and Bergvall were playing for us at 18.
I think he needs to play for us. Now we’ve got an attacking manger these young lads will thrive.
Think a lot depends on pre season. If he impressed DZ or not. If we go down think he will definitely stay with us not so sure if we stay up
Even if they flop, that’s probably better than Bentacur, Palinha, Gallagher, Kudus, Odobert et al
I think we need to hold fire on using Dowman as an example of anything because Nwaneri was looking like breaking through last year, and where is he right now?
He's played a couple of times and looked decent but let's not start using that as a rule of thumb for when e should expect all youngsters to start impacting first teams.
Gray and Bergvall both had at least one full season of senior football under their belts before they stated regularly for us, and that probably wouldn't have been the case if it wasn't for our horrendous injury list.
There are no guidelines for when one should expect anything from young players because they all develop differently, both physically and mentally.
Dowman is completely different.
If he stays fit he ends up a better player than Bellingham. The best young player I've seen so far.
Yeah was saying this in the youth thread a couple of weeks ago, not really going to be a fair comparison with Dowman and can't really be putting those expectations on our kids. Same with comparing our 15/16 year old CBs with Vuskovic who was starting Croatian/Polish top flight games at that age.
Yup, for every Dowman, Yamal, Rooney or Messi, there are literally thousands of players who won't break through until their early 20's.
Using the (very) few truly exceptional youngsters to suggest that everyone else should be doing the same is just daft.
Come on now. Does he really deserve to be listed with these guys?!
Maybe on Woolwich Mania...
Of course not, nowhere bloody near, which is kind of the point I was clumsily making.
In my previous post I said that last season, the same things were being said about Nwaneri and while Dowman looks potentially better, he's literally played a handful of minutes so far but someone quoted him as a reason why we should be playing Moore, because Moore is older?!
The only very young player for a premier league club who deserves to be compared to the level of Yamal is Vuskovic as he is perhaps the worlds best young CB and even then it’s a stretch.
He does things like this quite a bit
View: https://x.com/tekkersfoot/status/2040508997531312163?s=46&t=Gc6HrWVZT0mtSXU7r8ZBIQ
He does things like this quite a bit
View: https://x.com/tekkersfoot/status/2040508997531312163?s=46&t=Gc6HrWVZT0mtSXU7r8ZBIQ
Why?
If goons can play a 16 yr old in the PL and other big games surely we can play a 18/19 yr old. He’s had enough games in men’s football now. Tell me how many of our forwards are that much better than him. Bring him back let rdz work with him and get him to be a much bigger player. Only we keep sending players out on loan and give them a chance. It’s about time we proved if our great academy prospects are good enough. Same goes for Devine bring him back get rid of likes of bent, Sarr, etc. can anyone really say when Sarr plays as an advanced midfielder Alfie couldn’t play that role. He reminds me of a scholes and can make a great pass.