Quote Originally Posted by FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead View Post
I'm talking about players who were released at 14/15, not 18/19.

Regan Poole was released in June 2014, aged 15, and was playing senior mens football just two months later. He was signed by Man Utd for £100k within a year.

Burns was picked up straight away by a fellow Championship club who he played 50 odd games for.
Burns had only played 21 Championship games before this season. He struggled to get games with Bristol City even after they were relegated, they sent him on loan five times before letting him go to League 1 Fleetwood in 2017.

Poole ended up playing one minute for Man Utd (in a European game where Rashford made his debut). He hasn't played in the Championship as of yet, although it's only a matter of time I'd have thought. He was doing well at Portsmouth before his ACL injury.

Lockyer played nearly 300 games in Leagues 1 and 2, as well as the Conference, before he played in the Championship.

Bristol City gave up with Burns and sold him, the other two players let their contracts run down at Bristol Rovers and Lincoln so any Prem or Championship club could've picked them up for nothing. The fact that the three went to Fleetwood, Charlton and Portsmouth suggests it wasn't just us who didn't see a lot of potential there. As Trigger said, it's easy with hindsight.