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Tuanzebe is captain of The U23s. He's played every game, I think. He has a decent partnership with Poole at centre back. Axel has made a few errors but has also put in some very mature displays.
Cheers for the update. Iv not had much time this season to catch many of the youth games but it's good to know they are both still impressing. I would love for one of them to break into the senior team. Fosu is another who needs more minutes.
I think both are a couple of seasons away yet.
Love me some fulltimedevils, fantastic guys.
Me too, finding myself watching them more and more. Weirdly they all take sense unlike the nutjobs on ArsenalMania. Think this MrMujac guy is on the Caf too. If so, nice one mate, and more vids like this planned? Would be good if could include some footage too as examples.
the way some people speak of him being wasted at our reserve teams, you'd think he's 22 or even 20.If your good enough, your old enough!The kid is 18
Embarrassing.
I'd never even heard of Vidic before he was 24. People just expect too much too soon.The kid is 18
Not when you have 4 experienced CB's, all in good form, ahead of you
There not in that good a form that we can't play him in one of the many games we have.
Go out on loan like Andreas has this season. Unless we have a big injury crisis at the back, Axel isn't going to be breaking into the 1st team based Res performances alone
Why not other players do? How else do you get a chance if not based on red performances?
Because Res team football is so far away in terms of quality from PL football. It's a huge step up from Reserves football to PL football. One of the reasons why so many youngsters in England fail to make the step up to PL football. That is something the FA needs to work on
It seems to not doing the likes of Tom Davies any disadvantage. Key point is the trust from the manager. Of course every player is different from each other. Some will need loans. From what I've seen of Axel he certainly could comfortably play in the cup. Mourinho just doesn't want to take any risk.
I agree, we've had Borthwick-Jackson, Rashford, Fosu-Mensah step up last season but like you said, Jose is hardly the manager to take such chances.. He's focused only on winning, and will play the team that gives him the best chance of doing that taking rotation into account. Considering the deep squad we have, it's very unlikely we'll see any of the U-21's given a shot this season.
Once again, the majority of players come through reserve team football and are not loaned out.
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Hopefully he makes the bench on Thurs and starts against Wigan.
I think more likely it will be the bench vs Wigan, coming on when the game is wrapped up.
We do have a game against Hull in the league just 3 days later, so I think we will see a very random team on Sun.
The issue is, there is no room for him in the first team now. He may well be able to perform at this level, but there are still many ahead of him who can also perform at this level. It isn't like we are playing wingers in central defence instead of him, we are playing centre halves, who are generally playing well, except Smalling perhaps. We then have Blind who is as much a centre half as he is anything else.
Is that @Mr. MUJAC on that video?
