Please tell me there is a Bale, Giggs, Rush etc coming through, this team could really do well.
Biancheri, Crew and Koumas seem to be the most promising that are u18?
Still reeling from yesterday as you can tell. Looking to the future
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Please tell me there is a Bale, Giggs, Rush etc coming through, this team could really do well.
Biancheri, Crew and Koumas seem to be the most promising that are u18?
Still reeling from yesterday as you can tell. Looking to the future
We used to almost qualify for a tournament about once every 10 years - these days we are in with a chance each campaign, these are the good times
I didn’t mean it as in we are shit currently, last night felt like a prime Bale or Ramsey and we would have won convincingly. More as in we’re only 1/2 high level players from being competitive against everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I think we will be waiting a long time for another Bale (i.e. truly world class)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wozza16
We don't really have anyone operating at Ramsey's level either currently (i.e. champions league level) Poland had several.
Some of our best players are operating in the Championship.
I think a few of them can become established premier league players
I dont know if many have seen it but Koumas goal against Lithuania was absolute class, he's got some talent that boy. Great assisst from Colwill as well (remember him?)
I was flicking between Wales and Scotland last night. I would rather be going to the Euros with the Welsh squad, results aside Wales have so many talented youngsters coming through and a few top class players . Other than McGinn and Robertson Scotland have a dearth of talent at the moment .
Although last nights result was super disappointing for Wales , they ran Poland close. The future looks very positive .
Well, after qualifying for the Euro Finals for the first time last year, our under 17s made it through to this year's tournament yesterday. Our under 19s followed up a 1-0 loss to Belgium by winning by the same score when they met for a second time and the under 21s are top of their qualifying group - their rivals do have games in hand on them though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wozza16
All of that suggests a degree of strength in depth - something which has always been a weakness of ours in the past.
There's some promising, young talent in the team. Wonder kids is stretching it.
That’s because the tournament sizes have increasedQuote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I was also thinking that we're only a couple of 'special' players short of being ultra competitive but as long as we can unearth players of the quality of say Neco Williams on a regular basis, we will be in with a very good chance of qualification for every major tournament. Even more so now that qualification has been made easier.
Dave Edwards was saying after Euro 2020/1 that there might be a lull for a while but after that the future looked brighter, if that helps.
Even longer term, the number of kids wanting to play football as a result of Euro 2016 and us reaching a world cup, while rugby is in turmoil, might reach greater numbers than ever.
Brennan Johnson 22
Ethan Ampadu 23
Rubin Colwill 21
Neco Williams 22
Jordan James 19
Owen Beck 21
Luke Harris 19
Lewis Koumas 18
Chris Popov 19
Charlie Crew 17
Gabriele Biancheri 17
Some of our very talented young players I can think of. Probably forgotten some obvious ones.
Plenty to be excited about. We should never expect to see a Gareth Bale type star again - he was a freak let’s be fair. But the strength in depth is improving over all I think.
I read something about either a winger or striker at arsenal while reading sky sports "in the papers" section yesterday but can't find it now
Did come across this
Brayden Clarke
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...r-scholar.html
Arsenal also have James Sweet who made the bench against Porto... you don't get to read a lot about these youngsters..
I wouldn’t call 1958 and 1976 as every ‘10 years’.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Omari Benjamin possibly? Youth striker at ArsenalQuote:
Originally Posted by Dembe
That's the one :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Iwan Morgan up front as well only 18. A big chunk of that u19s side seem to be decent prospects, one of them already played a few times for Barnsley at 17/18Quote:
Originally Posted by Cardiff-Cal
The u19s and u17s seem very talented, far more so than I can remember. Oliver Bostock, Brayden Clarke and Elliot Myles seemingly the pick of the bunch at that level.
Feels like Chris Popov has been around for ages
I saw that he was linked with a move to Everton though he seemed to have a decent record at ArsenalQuote:
Originally Posted by Dembe
I think Brayden Clarke is the son of Nigel Quashie, always see him at Wales youth camps on social media. Think Clarke'll be the only one to play in both the u17 Euros last summer and the one this coming summer. Things seem to be looking up at youth levels
almost qualifyQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
i.e. 1986, 1994, 2004 etc
Alas, I think we have little to look forward to in the next couple of years. Nations league against unappealing teams and then a world cup campaign we will be very unlikely to get anything from.
Euro 2028 qualifying should be alright esp with the carrot of home games, but that feels a long way off
"Almost qualify". 1976, 1986, 1994, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Blue
I think we should be poaching some English kids that won't get a chance, start scouting for welsh Grannies, probably a good job for Sludge.
Whats about Koumas ? ? ?
?Quote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
We’ve been doing that for years.
i believe premier league academies are probably the best in the world with the sheer investment made in them and with Cardiff & Swansea so deep in the premier league scouting circuits Wales is going to get a conveyor belt of good duel & fully qualified kids.
Probably be worth getting a coach who has come through aged grade football preferably Welsh....ummmm
it's impossible to know whether any of the current talented youngsters will go on to be another bale.
even a few years into bales senior career you wouldn't have thought he would go on to do what he did
Regarding the first part they are trying to poach oursQuote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
This looks a decent result given comparitive resources. Hopefully a few decent players will emerge.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">FT- Wales 3 - 1 England<br><br>Not the result we wanted, plenty of positives to take ⚽<br><br>Come and support the lads in their first home fixture of the season at Walsall on the 6th April 🏴<br><br>Get your tickets now 👇<br>🎟️ <a href="https://t.co/A8vNtC9c09">https://t.co/A8vNtC9c09</a><br>🔴🔵⚪ <a href="https://t.co/m8BW1b0G7i">pic.twitter.com/m8BW1b0G7i</a></p>— English Schools' Football Association (@SchoolsFootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/SchoolsFootball/status/1773456448862761105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Very promising that the youth age grades seem to all be doing well, there must be a few quality prospects to be getting these results.
I just saw this link about grassroots investment on the FAW website. Seems to be some sort of funding as part of being a Euro 2028 host country as well. I'd love to see what their actual plan is with the revenue from the World Cup qualification etc. I live in Australia now and the grassroots here are incredible compared to what I grew up with in the valleys.
https://faw.cymru/news/record-turnov...ts-investment/