Dilan Markanday

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Ah this is the final straw for me.

I'm taking a levy out banner to the NLD!

This club is directionless from the top right down through the first team and youth teams. Spending cash on shit foreign players, not giving a chance to young players who have shown promise but happy to give a chance to other young players who haven't shown anything e.g. Scarlett and Tanganga.

The one thing I could rely on was watching the youth team play even when the first team were shit. Now you can't even do that because we have shut down avenues for them to progress here.

Think I might move to watching the women's team instead.
 
People can bitch about this but youth teams aren't all about supplying players to the first team, they're also about preparing players for selling on as well. Spurs have done pretty well at this in the last few years.
 
Bill Madrid said:
Because he'd played 125 games in one of the best leagues in Europe and was a full international I suppose.

They're not at comparable levels in their careers.
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125 la liga games? That didnt sound right. So I checked. He started 30 games in la liga overall in 3 years and has around 20 something sub appearances.
 
iz futbal said:
125 la liga games? That didnt sound right. So I checked. He started 30 games in la liga overall in 3 years and has around 20 something sub appearances.
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I'm crap at maths mate, its 62, regardless of started or sub: 21 Sevilla, 12 Leganes, 29 Eibar, including cup games. Four international caps at the Olympics.

Still a world of difference with young Dilan
 
Matt1882 said:
Players who have made it to our first team via the academy have rarely ever gone on to do much.
Carrol, Tarrabt, Mason, Townsend, etc etc.
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Let's pretend that Kane, Winks, Skipp, Bentaleb, KWP don't exist and that becoming an EPL player in itself (let alone an international; which the bulk of these lads have been) is not doing a hell of a lot more than "not much"

That wave of players you're writing off also generated in excess of £100m.

Matt1882 said:
I can't figure out if the people who always want these kids in our first team actually watch the kids and can't understand that it doesn't translate to being ready for elite level mens football.
Or if they're even more idiotic and make these claims without even watching them.,
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........Perhaps it's even more idiotic that you have an entrenched view that sees no value in us even having an academy.
 
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ArtyB said:
It just seems to me that no matter what the outcome of this there would have been people that would have found reasons to put the boot in...the irony is that if we were truly a mid table team we could have given the lad a lot more opportunities in the league but as we are more ambitious and are chasing top four these lads have to be exceptional to get a run and those that manage it still get fucking grief...
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Then what are Winks, PEH, Davies , etc doing here still! We are not ambitious at all.
 
1882 said:
Dylan Markanday sound like 3 blokes who flat share together in some posh North West London block....

...or is that Dylan, Mark and Andy?!!!

Hearing good things about him, (and Etete) but as we're still waiting on Dane Scarlett to get going.... Let's take the time with them... Maybe a Jan loan move for him too?? no presh presh!
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Dylan is ready to make his Mark and prove that he is Andy ! Put him in

Etete wasn't scoring for Northampton until recently.

Scarlett definitely needs to go out on loan to Norwich, QPR or Reading, all of whom play attacking football.
 
rusty said:
only watched a couple of U23 matches, but this lad looks more ready for moving up than Scarlett
maybe because of te position he plays, Scarlett is trying to be a CF where you get bished & boshed by CH's that will be hard for a kid
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Glad to hear on Markanday, but to be fair to Scarlett, Dilan is like 3.5 years older than him.
 
iz futbal said:
Should be given a few sub appearances until Jan to at least see if he can hack it. If not , then send him on loan.
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Just play him. Sub is hard to impact the game, under pressure to make something happen. Can he be worse than Lucas? Doubt it…. What are we losing by binning baldie? Some work rate but zero quality

Chuck the yoots in, there are 7 or so senior players that should never play for us again so banish them
 
Just to put it in perspective Marakanday is almost exactly a year younger than Skipp. At his age last year Skipp was in the middle of an exceptional loan at Norwich and in the previous season Skipp had made 11 apps for the 1st team including Champ League.
Is it the club or Dilan's fault that he had not been more pushed forward earlier?
 
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Allejo10 said:
Congratulatuions to the club for yet another horror show.
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Been thinking for a while that we should look to diversify our portfolio & branch out into the lucrative horror market

Maybe convert the stadium into a London Dungeons type venue (When NFL & Pop concerts aren't happening ofcourse)

£300 Quid Levy masks on sale in the club shop , we'll be raking it in
 
Danboy Totter said:
Been thinking for a while that we should look to diversify our portfolio & branch out into the lucrative horror market

Maybe convert the stadium into a London Dungeons type venue (When NFL & Pop concerts aren't happening ofcourse)

£300 Quid Levy masks on sale in the club shop , we'll be raking it in
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Welcome to this forum, Daniel!
 
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