Topic: Youth and Under 23 Thread

[darragh85]

is koumas any relation to Jason Koumas?  the championship wonder

[tubby]

is koumas any relation to Jason Koumas?  the championship wonder

Yeah he's his kid.

[The_Nomad]

Question from a ‘wool’. 😅 how many Liverpool born players are there in the U23s and who are they? Just curious.

[ElPayaso]

I’m not going to list all of them, but their birthplace is actually written on the official site. But I’d say about half of them are from Liverpool or nearby. Norris, Quansah, Jonas, Hill, Corness, Stewart, Lewis, Glatzel, Morton are all from the area, and a few more.

[So… Howard Philips]

2-0.

Koumas and Trent.

Match report from the club;

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/u21s-defeat-dinamo-zagreb-pl-international-cup-opener

[CanuckYNWA]

Of all the young kids on loan who is doing quite well? I know Sepp was playing regularly at Schalke until he got injured. Bradley seems to be going well at Bolton along with Morton at Blackburn but other than that I don't know how anyone else is doing

[El Lobo]

Clarksons still starting most games for Aberdeen who are 3rd in the SPL so thats good going I think. Balagizi was playing regularly for Crawley but has been out since mid-September with injury. Adam Lewis seems to be a regular for Newport but pretty sure he's not got a future here.   

[Boston always unofficial]

What's going on with the u-21 players over the world cup, no games till the new year?

[[new username under construction]]

Mr Morton starts for Blackburn at 12:30 on Sky, seeing as bugger all else on, might see how he's doing

[Solomon Grundy]

Mr Morton starts for Blackburn at 12:30 on Sky, seeing as bugger all else on, might see how he's doing

Blackburn got battered 3-0. Not sure how Morton faired, but going off the stats it looks like Burnley played them off the park.

[reddebs]

Blackburn got battered 3-0. Not sure how Morton faired, but going off the stats it looks like Burnley played them off the park.

They did and I barely heard his name mentioned apart from a couple of free kicks he took.  It took me a while to realise he was actually playing.

[Fromola]

They did and I barely heard his name mentioned apart from a couple of free kicks he took.  It took me a while to realise he was actually playing.

Some mad stats with Blackburn this season. They'd have gone top today if they'd won yet they lost their 9th league game of the season and it's not even halfway through.

Every game they've gone behind in they've not come back and every game they've gone ahead in they've not lost the lead and no draws. In 21 league games.

[smurfinaus]

Couple of things

Whats Bobby Clark like? Been on bench a few times this season (first team) but havent really heard of him before?.

Is it just me or our young forwards at youth level seem to all pick up injuries just when they hit their stride?

[Fordy]

Couple of things

Whats Bobby Clark like? Been on bench a few times this season (first team) but havent really heard of him before?.

Is it just me or our young forwards at youth level seem to all pick up injuries just when they hit their stride?

Why is he injured?

Bobby Clark is highly rated. Hence his first team call up’s. I believe he trains with the first team now.

[Aldo1988]

Couple of things

Whats Bobby Clark like? Been on bench a few times this season (first team) but havent really heard of him before?.

Is it just me or our young forwards at youth level seem to all pick up injuries just when they hit their stride?

Thought he looked good when he played against Derby, very lively and confident on the ball.  Still not sure what his best position is though, maybe the same type of player as Harvey?

[tubby]

He's an 8, but he's played a few games in the front line at youth level.  I really like the look of him, nimble, mobile, works hard and has good technique.  Closest comparison I can think of is someone like Mason Mount.

[Fromola]

Couple of things

Whats Bobby Clark like? Been on bench a few times this season (first team) but havent really heard of him before?.

Is it just me or our young forwards at youth level seem to all pick up injuries just when they hit their stride?

Definitely in recent years. Brewster, Glatzel, Layton Stewart, Gordon. All out for like a full year as well at least.

[So… Howard Philips]

Definitely in recent years. Brewster, Glatzel, Layton Stewart, Gordon. All out for like a full year as well at least.

Kaide Gordon as well.

[El Lobo]

Kaide Gordon as well.

And Gordon

[[new username under construction]]

Fortunately Gordon isn't dead, I'm sure someone can update his status

[oojason]

Fortunately Gordon isn't dead, I'm sure someone can update his status

(it had to be done - it had to be...)

[[new username under construction]]

Thank you sir

[oojason]

[smurfinaus]

Definitely in recent years. Brewster, Glatzel, Layton Stewart, Gordon. All out for like a full year as well at least.

Is their any hope for Glatzel, Stewart or Cannonier (he is currently still out ?) ?. We dont seem to have any luck with forwards coming through :/

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Saturday LFCTV Live: Liverpool U18 v Sunderland 12:00

unless it's been moved etc?

[Boston always unofficial]

Sunderland top so we need to show up for this after 2 straight defeats.Dunno if i'm awake for a 7 a.m start.

[oojason]

Sunderland U18s are 1-0 up; Henry Fieldson the scorer on 5'

Stream: http://streamers.watch/c/football/england-premier-league-u18/03-12-2022/liverpool-u-18-vs-sunderland-u-18/2/

[TepidT2O]

0-3 now

[reddebs]

0-3 now

The 2nd and 3rd were carbon copies of each other so much that I thought the TV had gliched and gone back to before the 2nd goal.

[Boston always unofficial]

Not going well for this team at the moment,gave up trying to get a second half stream.4-0 final score.

[paisley1977]

Not going well for this team at the moment,gave up trying to get a second half stream.4-0 final score.

Half the team were U16's and Sunderland are top of the league.

[Chris~]

Half the team were U16's and Sunderland are top of the league.

Don't think any of the starters were u16s

[Boston always unofficial]

Half the team were U16's and Sunderland are top of the league.

There were a few 16 year olds but losing 4-0 and 4 straight defeats,pretty fair description of not going well at the moment ?

[Too early for flapjacks?]

Don't recognize any of the kids from today's U18 game. Wonder if some of the better prospects are joining the first team on the plane to Dubai tomorrow/Monday.

[KloppCorn]

I don’t look at results at youth level. Only talent

[Boston always unofficial]

I don’t look at results at youth level. Only talent

Out of the team that played against Sunderland who do you think has the most potential.I've not seen much of this lot?

[KloppCorn]

Out of the team that played against Sunderland who do you think has the most potential.I've not seen much of this lot?

me personally I haven’t watched youth football since I was a youth. In sterling era. So I couldn’t tell you one player. Sorry

[El Lobo]

Dubai squad:

Adrian, Kelleher, Davies, Mrozek, Pitaluga, Salah, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jones, Elliott, Tsimikas, Ramsay, Robertson, Carvalho, Bajcetic, Phillips, Gordon, Keita, Matip, Gomez, Jota, Arthur, Diaz, Thiago, Firmino, Chambers, Quansah, Clark, Frauendorf, Stewart, Doak, Cain, Corness.

Plenty of kids going

[tubby]

Is Gordon available now, or is he just continuing his rehab over there?  Jota is going too, but he's not going to be ready till next year.

[.adam]

No sign of Musialowski who I understand is a bit out of favour at the moment. Did a bit of digging and found this from three weeks ago.

It'd be a shame if he doesn't fulfil his potential.

https://www.sport.pl/pilka/7,65080,29136387,mateusz-musialowski-zagral-tak-ze-w-liverpoolu-nie-wytrzymali.html

Google Translate:

Musiałowski's excitingly promising career seems to be slowing down. In the youth team of Liverpool, the Pole played only 350 minutes this season. Jurgen Klopp no ​​longer invites him to training as often as before. Back in April 2021, he had him take the ball and swing with Trent Alexander-Arnold to prepare the Englishman for playing against Real Madrid 's Vinicius in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

"At first glance, he is a phenomenal football player, but with each subsequent look, his shortcomings are noticed. He delights in short videos that become viral, but matches do not last several dozen seconds," wrote Dawid Szymczak in September on Sport.pl.

ournalists in the UK seem to see the same thing. Musiałowski played for the Liverpool U-21 team in a friendly international tournament. His team won against Dinamo Zagreb 2:0. According to the English, this match was a kind of "interrogation" for Musiałowski. And it probably did not turn out the best, since the paragraphs devoted to the Pole were entitled "Malowski's misfortune".

The 19-year-old has drawn attention since joining the Reds' academy in 2020, seeking to live up to his moniker 'Polish Messi'. While there were some great moments up front, finding repetition proved to be a stumbling block. Musialowski too often tried to measure with several Dinamo Zagreb players voluntarily, but to little effect, resulting in cries of 'Matty!' from frustrated members of the coaching staff standing on the sidelines," reports a journalist from the local website liverpoolecho.co.uk.

his relationship coincides with what one of the people close to the club from Anfield said in an interview with Sport.pl. “At the academy they are annoyed by his many losses and his attitude in games and training. Wandering around, lack of commitment to defense and not fulfilling tactical tasks. The reserves are already the vestibule of adult football, and Musiałowski is not ready for it yet.