Quote Originally Posted by Loramski View Post
TOBW predicted this recently. It feels like I'm missing something though. He was captain of Everton age-groups but they released him at 19. He played for Scotland under-18s at 16 (alongside Jack Kingdon) but dropped off their radar after that. It's an odd CV.

I think he had an injury here early on but I was impressed when I first saw him and felt he was a possible first teamer with Eli King out. BBM put him on the bench for the Newport game but, despite all kinds of funky stuff going on with 15 and 16 year olds, players out of position and Wintle and Turnbull tiptoeing through the second half after yellow cards, he didn't get on.

He played against Arsenal u-21s but didn't get on against Wimbledon, BBM kept Colwill and Mafico on for the 90 even though the game was over after about 50. When I saw him for the u-21s around that time he wasn't as good as I was expecting, I never felt he was running the game and he even got subbed against QPR. He's been in and out of the side since Xmas.

TOBW rates him and he's seen more of him than me so I respect that. Maybe I've caught him on a couple of off days, maybe he's not quite at full fitness for some reason, but he hasn't pushed on here as I was expecting. Still time though and a loan spell could kick things off for him.
I always find these kinds of transfers of released PL players a bit odd, often it feels like these players are brought in, play for the u21s and leave with no impact on the first team beside possibly blocking our own youngsters

I think there are only 2 examples that had a long positive effect, Joel Bagan & Mark McGuinness, but these were a bit different to someone like Apter, Bagan signed at 16 which is younger than the likes of Apter whilst McGuinness already had a season at Ipswich under his belt