Quote Originally Posted by Loramski View Post
Thanks for that, much appreciated.

Looks like neither of us can help Tomcat, it's Samuel Ayite but the internet hasn't heard of him.

It has heard of Joaquin Rivera though (assuming it's the same guy who played yesterday). He's 28 and has trodden the familiar path that so many Spaniards have been down before, he was at Barry last season having signed from Cardiff Bay FC. My eldest saw him in Barry's game against Cardiff Met in May and said he was 'f**king bollocks'.

Jacob Evans is an odd one. I haven't seen him listed as a trialist this season and his Wiki page says he's a Cardiff City player but also says he was only signed on a deal to the end of the 2017-18 season (which I don't remember happening). I'm sure I saw his face in the under-23 squad on the club site during the close season but it's not there now yet when the club announced their retained list he was named among the scholars retained, even though he's 20. Hope that clears things up.

A brief follow up to yesterday's game here.

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...ofessionalism/
I did have a quick look at someone else's teamsheet on Monday and the trialist right back's first name wasn't Joaquin - I can't remember what it was now, but it was an Italian sounding name.
Jacob Evans may have been given some sort of contract by the club last season because he did play a lot of games for the Development team - maybe it was something similar to Lloyd Humphries' loan deal with Weston whereby he often played two games a week, one for Weston and then one for our Under 23s?
I just checked the club website and I think it's safe to say that a relative of our manager is now in our Academy squad!

https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/teams/u18/