The Bluebirds Academy and DVP thread...

[ccfcwelshlad]

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New signing - Finlay Johnson, a striker from Stevenage. https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news...son-signs-city

According to Stevenage's website we've agreed "an undisclosed compensation package". Can we do that?
https://www.stevenagefc.com/news/202...otball-league/

Might have just offered to play a friendly there or something. To only give him a one year deal would suggest was minimal.

Hope he's as good a striker as his Dad, Andy. The bald one who played for Palace!

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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Might have just offered to play a friendly there or something. To only give him a one year deal would suggest was minimal.

Hope he's as good a striker as his Dad, Andy. The bald one who played for Palace!

I'm sure (to be polite) that it was all checked and okayed. I assume this means one of Crole, Ashford or Zimba might be going out on loan.

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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Young team (I mean for an U21 game) for Cambrian and Clydach. No King, Semenyo, Colwill J, Antwi, Conte, Turner, Kavanagh, Kenniford.

[AdrianAlston]

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I’m not sure if they’ve announced the new intake yet mate
It’s Cardiff after all lol ��
Dan Ola is from Port Talbot
They’re playing against Everton tomorrow so that’ll be a good test ����

Quite a few lads from 'West Glamorgan'. Kpakio, Mafico and Ola. Has Lester signed as well? Ola looks an athlete, how come he has not been capped at U15 or U16 level for Wales; they are not flush with Strikers in his age group?

[AdrianAlston]

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Apparently Lewys Benjamin has signed for Wolves.

Now I consider myself a reasonable man, not angry, not argumentative; but please can no-one say "good luck to the lad", because I just don't feel that way.

I've dreamt my whole life of playing for the City. At the age of 56, admittedly that's unlikely. So when someone turns down that chance I consider them to be a bit of a ....

I don't wish them ill, but I do hope that they rue the the day they turned down the City, my club.

[City123]

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Apparently Lewys Benjamin has signed for Wolves.

Now I consider myself a reasonable man, not angry, not argumentative; but please can no-one say "good luck to the lad", because I just don't feel that way.

I've dreamt my whole life of playing for the City. At the age of 56, admittedly that's unlikely. So when someone turns down that chance I consider them to be a bit of a ....

I don't wish them ill, but I do hope that they rue the the day they turned down the City, my club.

It's a bit of a strange one. Going to Man City, I understand, but Wolves? Really? Hardly a particularly good recent record of bringing through players. The only ones I can think of really is Morgan Gibbs-White who they ended up alienating to the point he went to Forest and Ryan Giles who's never played for them.

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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2-2 at full-time (own goal and Ashford), 4-3 on pens. Looked as if they were 3-1 up on pens and missed their last two and then the sudden death. Looked exciting on Twitter, probably more so in real life. The Nathaniel MG Cup dream lives on. Lewys Benjamin won't get this at Wolves.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Sounds like good entertainment

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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It's a bit of a strange one. Going to Man City, I understand, but Wolves? Really? Hardly a particularly good recent record of bringing through players. The only ones I can think of really is Morgan Gibbs-White who they ended up alienating to the point he went to Forest and Ryan Giles who's never played for them.

Cash. He'll be set for life probably. I don't blame him but I do think it is a weird move.

[the other bob wilson]

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The irony of the Lewys Benjamin situation is that he was the only one of the eight I believe it was City players in the squad who did not see game time for Wales in the under 17 Euros. Martyn Margetson’s son played in the first game and then he was displaced by City’s Luke Armstrong for the last two - Armstrong having been picked up from Wolves’ Academy (where he had been since the age of seven) by us.

I don’t get to watch anywhere near as much under 18s football as I used to, so I’ve not seen a great deal of either Benjamin or Armstrong (the former was very good in the inder 21 match I saw him play in mind). However, it might be that Benjamin’s decision to join Wolves was influenced in some part by the possibility that his path could be blocked at Cardiff by a player that the Midlands team, apparently, released!

It might be as well that the story of George Ratcliffe influenced Benjamin - Ratcliffe was identified as the best prospect out of the talented group of youngsters coming through three or four years ago by Wales Online, yet did not get a sniff of first team action in contrast to someone brought in from Palace who, in my opinion, has been no better than decent for the Under 21s, yet has already made a league debut for us and is established as our third choice keeper following Dillon Phillips’ departure.

[the other bob wilson]

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That was my first thought. Wasn't he on trial here last year too?

I vaguely remember someone for Stevenage playing a game on trial, for the under 21s I think it was, towards the end of last season.

[LA Bluebird]

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On the face of it, a bit weird. Keeper is obviously the position you get blocked the easiest by somebody in your same age group, but then why you'd choose to go to the team that probably has some of the least paths for British youngsters in the country because half of their team comes from the Portugese setup I'm not really sure. Good luck to him, but a big step down from Man City for his future career.

[AdrianAlston]

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The irony of the Lewys Benjamin situation is that he was the only one of the eight I believe it was City players in the squad who did not see game time for Wales in the under 17 Euros. Martyn Margetson’s son played in the first game and then he was displaced by City’s Luke Armstrong for the last two - Armstrong having been picked up from Wolves’ Academy (where he had been since the age of seven) by us.

I don’t get to watch anywhere near as much under 18s football as I used to, so I’ve not seen a great deal of either Benjamin or Armstrong (the former was very good in the inder 21 match I saw him play in mind). However, it might be that Benjamin’s decision to join Wolves was influenced in some part by the possibility that his path could be blocked at Cardiff by a player that the Midlands team, apparently, released!

It might be as well that the story of George Ratcliffe influenced Benjamin - Ratcliffe was identified as the best prospect out of the talented group of youngsters coming through three or four years ago by Wales Online, yet did not get a sniff of first team action in contrast to someone brought in from Palace who, in my opinion, has been no better than decent for the Under 21s, yet has already made a league debut for us and is established as our third choice keeper following Dillon Phillips’ departure.

Ratcliffe, unfortunately, didn’t kick on because of injuries and because he didn't grow. He simply wasn't tall enough for a pro goalie, he made Ron Healey look a giant

[the other bob wilson]

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Ratcliffe, unfortunately, didn’t kick on because of injuries and because he didn't grow. He simply wasn't tall enough for a pro goalie, he made Ron Healey look a giant

That’s not how I remember him, he never struck me as small for a keeper and if he was, Healey was one of the better City keepers I’ve seen. As someone who is old enough to remember goalkeepers who were five foot eight tall and still enjoyed long careers in the First Division, I’m not convinced by the modern thinking that keepers have to be giants - especially during an era where most of them stay rooted to their line when a cross comes in.

[Rjk]

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Cash. He'll be set for life probably. I don't blame him but I do think it is a weird move.

in fairness, Wolves might not be man city, but they still have a better current record of producing players than we do